Re: Fw: cfengine (blah01) (249)

[Ian Wallace]

Katherine - I can't explain why cfengine has started to do this but I have seen
this behaviour on HPUX.  Seems that if a file is in use (meaning the applicaiton
is running) you can't remove the file which started it.  I don't know if this is
a memory mapping option, or something else, but if you start up a server, and
then try to remove it's file you'll get this message (I've developed CORBA/C++
servers under HPUX and during builds if we were running or using the shared
libraries then we couldn't replace them).

I don't know the work around but maybe it'll help to know that it's 'normal'

cheers
ian



Katherine Morris wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> My cfengine implementation was rocking along just fine for weeks. Until
> recently, all HP systems have been updating their core cfengine files just
> fine, but now several HP servers are spamming me with mail everytime they
> tried to update the cfengine binary (once per hour).  None of my cfengine
> configurations have changed, nor has the cfengine binary.  The file gets
> downloaded to cfengine.cfnew, but gets stuck when trying to move it into
> place.  Again the cfengine binary hasn't changed, so it shouldn't be
> downloading anyway.  The cfengine binary is under the $(cfbin) directory,
> and I have seperate binaries compiled for each flavor of OS...
> 
> hpux10_20::
>     $(cfbin)/hp10 dest=$(cfbin)
>         recurse=1
>         timestamp=preserve
>         backup=false
>         mode=a+rx
>         server=XXXX
> 
> hpux11_00::
>     $(cfbin)/hp11 dest=$(cfbin)
>         recurse=1
>         timestamp=preserve
>         backup=false
>         mode=a+rx
>         server=XXXX
> 
> Any ideas why this might suddenly be occuring??
> 
> ****************************
> 
> This message originates from host blah01 on
> The full command issued was: /opt/cfengine/modules/cfupdate. +++++
> cfengine:blah01: Problem: could not install copy file as
> /opt/cfengine/bin/cfengine, directory in the way?
> cfengine:blah01: rename: Text file busy
> 
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