Re: cfagent works, but auth fails if run via cfexecd

[Mark . Burgess]

Is there any connection between when this happens and when the cfagent
binary gets updated?

Is it consistent failure with cfexecd of intermittent?

M

On 20 Oct, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Do you get the same results when running cfexecd in daemon mode (ie. not
> using crontab)?
> 
> Seems like the problem may be that one connection is hanging (or
> something) and you are trying to connect again from the same host.  You
> can verify this by watching the cfserv process on the server...
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:21, Frank Smith wrote:
>> For what its worth, I see the same problem (currently using 2.0.8p1
>> but it existed on prior versions).
>>    With cfexecd running hourly from cron on about 130 hosts, I get
>> 10 - 20 'authentication failed' messages a day. The hosts involved
>> a mostly random but some seem more likely to fail than others.
>>    Not a big enough issue for me try to debug (which is difficult
>> since it always works whenever I run cfagent manually), but it is
>> slightly annoying.
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> --On Monday, October 20, 2003 09:35:40 -0700 jgenus@bigelow.org wrote:
>> 
>> > Kurt,
>> > 
>> > Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same problem w/ 2.1.0b5....
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > James
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org> wrote in message 
>> > news:<mailman.1209.1065482414.21628.help-cfengine@gnu.org>...
>> >> Using cfengine 2.0.8p1, I have an odd problem where cfagent, when run via
>> >>  
>> >> cfexecd, fails with the following error message (sent via email):
>> >> 
>> >> cfengine:clientmachine: Challenge response from server 
>> >> www.myserver.com/192
>> >> .168.1.1 was incorrect!
>> >> cfengine:clientmachine: Authentication dialogue with www.myserver.com 
>> >> failed
>> >> 
>> >> Sometimes, that message repeats twice in the email, other times it's just
>> >> once.  It does not appear to be consistent.  This same problem occurs
>> >> across multiple hosts.
>> >> 
>> >> If I run cfagent -v manually, using the same configuration files,
>> >> everything completes successfully with no mention of the word "fail"
>> >> anywhere in the output.
>> >> 
>> >> I'm stumped -- any clues?
>> >> 
>> >> --kurt
>> >> 
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> 
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