Re: [Cfengine] Re: cfexecd mail

[Bas van der Vlies]

Andrew Stribblehill wrote:

> Quoting Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> (2003-07-29 13:07:44 BST):
>
> > Go, boy, go!
> > On 29 Jul, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds good, shall i implement it?
>
>
> I was wondering ... wouldn't it be better if cfagent -z was an
> interactive command which, when given a variable name would return
> its value (possibly prefixed by the number of characters it was
> sending, for ease of parsing). This way, only Cfexecd needs to be
> changed to do something like this.
>
> BTW, if you choose not to go for this (and I'm willing to code the
> generic interface) I added some cruft at around cfexecd.c:432 which
> copes with old cfagents who didn't send EmailMaxLines. Since you're
> in the area, I'd be obliged if you removed the compatibility code if
> it's not too much bother.

Sorry but i do not understand it. Do you mean:
   # cfagent -z sysadm
   12:basv@sara.nl

   # cfagent -z smtpfrom
   16:cfengine@sara.nl

In this situation we still need to change cfagent.c and cfexecd.c to 
support new variables.

I have made a patch against 2.0.7p3 (debian). It is a simple patch, but
if we choose another approach is fine for me. The patch now behaves as
follows if NO 'smtpfrom' variable is set it uses the default one:
        cfengine@<FQDN>

I am now in the testing fase ;-)







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