Re: shellcomands define is broken

[Mark . Burgess]

On 29 Sep, Bill Shikrallah wrote:
> Using cfengine 1.6.0.a10 I am getting odd behavior when trying to define a 
> class
> based on a shellcommand run.  It seems like cfengine is reading the
> define=enoughspace as a chroot directive.  The segment of the config file is 
> as
> follows
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> groups:
>       patches_installed = ( "/usr/bin/test -f
> /usr/private/cfengine/patches_installed" )
> 
> control:
>       actionsequence = (
>               shellcommands.cf_patches
>       )
> 
> shellcommands:
>       cf_patches.!patches_installed::
>               "/usr/private/cfengine/bin/checkvar"
>                       define=enoughspace
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> and in the verbose output I get this output
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> cfengine:baker: Executing script
> /usr/private/cfengine/bin/checkvar...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
> (Setting umask to 77)
> cfengine:baker:n/checkvar: cfengine:baker: Couldn't chroot to enoughspace
> cfengine:baker:n/checkvar: cfengine:baker: chroot: No such file or directory
> cfengine:baker:n/checkvar: cfengine:baker: Couldn't open pipe to command
> /usr/private/cfengine/bin/checkvar
> cfengine:baker:n/checkvar: cfengine:baker: popen: No such file or directory
> cfengine:baker: Finished script /usr/private/cfengine/bin/checkvar
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 


Thanks for this report. This will be fixed in 1.6.0.a11, which
I shall put out shortly on ftp.iu.hio.no.

best Mark

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