Re: RecursiveCheck was looking at ... lstat: No such file or directory

[Mark . Burgess]

On 28 Oct, Tod Oace wrote:
> I am also seeing various lstat errors from RecursiveCheck. All of mine 
> so far this month are from recursive "file:" sweeps.
> 
> I've received "lstat: No such file or directory" from Linux, Solaris 
> and HP-UX, so this isn't a platform specific phenomena. I'd like 
> Cfengine to stop sending me these unless there's something I should be 
> doing about them.

I shall try to look into this. I am not sure where they are coming from
but I do not think there is anything wrong. It is probably just a mistaken
error message.
 
> A solaris 2.8 system had some  "lstat: Value too large for defined data 
> type" errors. I'd like to understand what that is about.

This should be fixed in 2.1.11 (snapshot now) and is caused by compilation
with old 32 bit data types where files are larger than 4GB.

> And a Linux system had a few "lstat: Stale NFS file handle" errors. I'd 
> like Cfengine to continue reporting this kind of problem.  -Tod

This, we have no option to but continue

M

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