RE: No reliable outputs in 2.1.15 ?

[Martin, Jason H]

Try putting in an 'alert' stanza that is always true (such as FOO|!FOO).
Also, cfexecd doesn't send any mail unless the output differs from the
previous run, so you might have to put in a shellcommand that echos
something to the previous file to make it different then the current
file.

Also, you wouldn't get copy output unless the source and destination is
different.

-Jason Martin

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> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.
> org] On Behalf Of David Masterson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:25 AM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: No reliable outputs in 2.1.15 ?
> 
> 
> I've begun setting up a CFEngine environment here.  I've 
> installed cfengine from RPMs off of Dag Wieers site and that 
> got cfservd, cfenvd, and cfexecd running on the systems at 
> bootup.  I've configured a simple update.conf to copy 
> cfagent.conf and update.conf from the remote master directory 
> to the local "inputs" directory.  I have "force=true" in the 
> copy and I see the copy happening at hourly intervals (the 
> timestamps on the files are updated and .cfsaved files are 
> created).  However, *most* of the time, I do not see a log 
> file being created in the "outputs" directory.  So, my questions are:
> 
> *     What is the "previous" link in the "outputs" directory? 
>  What creates
> it?  For what reason?  Why would it be removed or *not* created?
> *     Assuming copies are happening, shouldn't output be 
> created in the
> "outputs" directory?  Is the daemons running incorrectly?
> *     Should I abandon the RPMs and build cfengine from 
> scratch?  Is there
> reasons for building on a system from scratch?
> *     Where in the documentation is the "outputs" directory 
> discussed and
> when output is created?  What about email to sysadm?
> 
> The following is my update.conf:
> 
> control:
>     actionsequence = ( copy )
>     domain = ( vmware.com )
>     policyhost = ( cfengine.eng.vmware.com )
> 
>     master_cfinput = ( /home/cfengine/master/config/cfengine/inputs )
>     local_cfinput = ( /var/cfengine/inputs )
> 
> copy:
>     $(master_cfinput)         dest=$(local_cfinput)
>                               recurse=inf
>                               mode=600
>                               owner=root
>                               group=root
>                               server=$(policyhost)
>                               trustkey=true
>                               ignore=CVS
> 
> -- 
> David Masterson
> VMware, Inc.
> Palo Alto, CA
> 
> 
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