Re: Virtual network interfaces

[Predrag Zecevic - Support Engineer]

Jerry Christopher wrote:

> For reference, we've been on 1.6.3 for a couple years now and have had 
> zero issue with Cfengine and logical interfaces on Solaris 7 or 8. 
> Predgrag, can you provide a little more about your config files and 
> how you're trying to set things up?  What are you trying to do?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
Hi Jerry,

well this was even first start of 'cfagnet -vq'!
It just stopped with error mentioned earlier (it never stops on boxes 
which also have up to 5 virtual interfaces)...

So, what conf files could be involved if cfagent stopped BEFORE reading 
of any files with any rules?

I am not sure which conf file you need - please suggest.

Idea was to have ONE /etc/inet/hosts file on MASTER host, and ALL host 
have to use this, parse and set rows if class evaulates to true..
Why? Because some of host use virtual interfaces - some not. Because I 
want to have ONLY one (template) hosts table to manage. Because then I 
can check if virtual network interface is up and running. Because I can 
check for presence and content of /etc/hostname.*:x files.

So,

  1. Master host keeps original copy of file
  2. Client host checks local copy of it (NOT /etc/inet/hosts)
  3. If master copy is changed, cfagent should update its copy, they
     pass through editfiles session (triggered by update) and
     remove/add/replace something and THAN place result on /etc/inet/hosts

Examples on request.

Thanks and regards ;-)

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