Re: cfenvd droppings in /var/cfengine

[Mark . Burgess]

These files are intended, and the message to syslog is not supposed
to come in 2.0.5, but was probably present in 2.0.5b1

Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade!

M

On 19 Feb, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@madstop.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got one host out of about 10 (in my limited roll-out) whose cfenvd
>> process appears to be creating many files in /var/cfengine:
>>
>> kaniela@krypton(0) $ ls /var/cfengine/cf_*
>> /var/cfengine/cf_incoming.cfengine
>> /var/cfengine/cf_incoming.cfengine.cfsaved
>> /var/cfengine/cf_incoming.ftp
> 
> [...]
> 
>> /var/cfengine/cf_outgoing.www
>> /var/cfengine/cf_outgoing.www.cfsaved
>>
>> I've tried removing them, restarting cfenvd, everything I can think
>> of, and they come right back.
> 
> Why remove them?  I assumed they are part of the regular operation of
> of cfenvd.
> 
>> I also get a syslog message very five minutes letting me know that
>> they have all been edited.
> 
> What generates this message?  Can you filter it?  Syslog doesn't
> normally send mail.
> 
> 



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