Re: No email output - cfengine-2.1.14

[David E. Nelson]

Hi Christian,

I've logged two cases: 'no email output' and 'redundant code' on SF.

         /\/elson

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Christian Pearce wrote:

> 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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