Re: cfd rejects improperly on first connect after config reload

[Elmar Kurgpold]

I have also seen this problem and have worked around it by bouncing cfd
every time cfd.conf is updated.  This seems to happen the most when
updating the admit section, possibly when changing the list of hosts to
admit.

        ++Elmar

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> On  9 Nov, Alan Sparks wrote:
> > Got a problem with 1.6.0.a11 cfd.  If the cfd.conf gets updated, the
> > following appears in syslog (and the remote cfrun is rejected):
> > 
> > Nov  9 11:01:19 email06 cfengine:email06[12816]: Edited file
> > /etc/inet/hosts
> > Nov  9 11:15:40 email06 cfd[639]: Rereading config files
> > /opt/cfengine/etc/cfd.conf..
> > Nov  9 11:15:40 email06 cfd[639]: Host authentication failed or access
> > denied
> > Nov  9 11:15:40 email06 cfd[639]: Multithreaded version
> > Nov  9 11:17:03 email06 cfd[639]: Executing command
> > /opt/cfengine/sbin/cfengine ...
> > 
> > So, cfd is rereading its config, then not working correctly for the
> > first connection (but OK on the second and subsequent tries). 
> > Restarting cfd after a cfd change might be an option, I'm concerned
> > about restarting a cfd that might be already communicating with a remote
> > cfrun tho.
> > 
> > Any fix or workaround for this?  Thanks.
> > -Alan
> > 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> I have not seen this problem.  Any more info you can provide
> would be useful if it is a problem.
> 
> Mark
> 
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