Re: No email output - cfengine-2.1.14

[Christian Pearce]

This sort of fall into the "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
category.  Has anyone launched a bug on this?  Could you please?

I am actually going to submit something soon about having Cfengine
support multiple comma separated email addresses.

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 07:24 -0500, David E. Nelson wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> This was originally titled for RH-AS but since upgrading my Solaris from 
> 2.1.11 
> to 2.1.14 it now also applies.
> 
> You are correct in that cfexecd is responsible to sending the email.  So now 
> I'm looking at/into cfexecd just not sure what to look for/at.  As I 
> mentioned 
> earlier, 2.1.11 used to email without any problems so the configs should be 
> correct for 2.1.14.
> 
> Question: Will cfexecd still email if run from cron using '-F'?  Or is it the 
> admin's responsibility to redirect the output and email?
> 
> Also, I was browsing the cfexecd src code (2.1.14) and noticed the following 
> "bug":
> 
>   if (strlen(MAILFROM) == 0)
>      {
>      sprintf(VBUFF,"From: cfengine@%s\r\n",VFQNAME);
>      Debug("%s",VBUFF);
>      }
>   else
>      {
>      sprintf(VBUFF,"From: cfengine@%s\r\n",VFQNAME);
>      Debug("%s",VBUFF);
>      }
> 
> Both actions are the same so I'm not sure what is trying to be accomplised 
> here 
> (or what isn't being accomplished).
> 
> Thanks,
>        /\/elson
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 May 2005, Dmitry Sazonov wrote:
> 
> > afaik, cfexecd  - is the one that sends email.
> >
> > On Friday 29 April 2005 05:45 pm, David E. Nelson wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I've got one config file (cfagent.conf) w/ the 'sysadm', 'EmailFrom',
> >> 'EmailMaxLines', and 'smtpserver' all defined.  Yet I receive no email 
> >> output.
> >>
> >> I've done a 'cfagent -d2' and looked through the output.  The var is being
> >> expanded/defined but that's about it.  There's no attempt to contact the 
> >> smtp
> >> server even thought I've got 'inform=true' defined in various areas of the 
> >> conf
> >> file.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>     /\/elson
> >>
> >
> 
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