Re: cfexecd and cfagent

[Alan Silver]

Tod Oace <tod.r.oace@intel.com> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.1573.1097011936.2017.help-cfengine@gnu.org>...
> On Oct 4, 2004, at 07:35, Alan Silver wrote:
> 
> > I have built cfengine 2.1.10 on a redhat enterprise 3 machine just
> > fine. I have the binaries built in /usr per the configure script. I
> > have come to the slippery slope known as cfexecd. It of course is
> > looking for cfagent in /var/cfengine/bin. Is there anyway that I could
> > have cfexecd look in /usr/sbin for cfagent?
> 
> I have them in /usr/local/sbin/ and do this:
> 
> links:
>          # Cfengine has some strange dependancies on finding itself in
>          # /var/cfengine/bin/ even though it installs into 
> /usr/local/sbin
>          # by default. Create links so we don't have problems:
>          /var/cfengine/bin +> /usr/local/sbin include=cf*
> 
> Seems like something similar would fix your problem.


Thanks for the help.

I ended up just building in the link in my rpm. I am still left with a
slightly bitter feeling that I need cfagent in /var/cfengine/bin, but
I will get over it. Cfengine is still a great product (thanks Mark)

alan