cfexecd dies on startup, cfagent runs ok

[Carl Hicks]

I'm having a bit of a problem getting cfengine to behave properly,
here's the problem:

Invoking cfagent through cfexecd returns the following message:
cfexecd: cfengine defines no system administrator address
cfexecd: Need: sysadm = ( ??@?? ) in control

I've verified that my configuration file contains the following
information (I've replaced the real values with fake ones, just for
this example):

control:

   AllowUsers     = ( root )
   domain         = ( mydomain.com )
   timezone       = ( CST )
   smtpserver     = ( mail.mydomain.com )  # used by cfexecd
   sysadm         = ( me@mydomain.com )     # where to mail output
   actionsequence = ( files shellcommands copy )


Running a syntax check against the cfagent.conf file using cfagent -p
returns no errors

Manually invoking cfagent --debug returns no errors, updates my
checksums, etc.

Invoking cfagent -z produces the following output:

mail.mydomain.com
me@mydomain.com
server.mydomain.com
192.168.0.100
-1

Invoking strace cfexecd -F produces the following output:

open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY)            = 3
fcntl64(3, F_GETFD)                     = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=319, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x40014000
read(3, "# Do not remove the following li"..., 4096) = 319
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 4096)                = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1069132714
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x400d3e90, [INT], SA_RESTART|0x4000000},
{SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x400d3e90, [TERM], SA_RESTART|0x4000000},
{SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
umask(077)                              = 022
pipe([3, 4])                            = 0
fork()                                  = 17026
close(4)                                = 0
fcntl64(3, F_GETFL)                     = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x40014000
_llseek(3, 0, 0xbfffe610, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---

Any ideas?  Is it odd that cfagent -z is returning a -1?

Thanks,

-Charles