Re: absolute path errors in 2.1.16

[Chip Seraphine]

I downloaded the new nameinfo.c and functions.c.   My test program seems 
to work correctly now, woohoo!    Thanks for the extremely fast fix.

I'll test it out some more through the weekend and I'll be sure to 
report if any bad behavior persists.

Mark Burgess wrote:

> Patch for this problem now uploaded to svn.
>
> Mark
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:53 -0500, Chip Seraphine wrote:
>  
>
> > Mark Burgess wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > You both need to give decent error reports. I don't have any trouble
> > > with this. Give me an example. Nothing much has changed in the code, so
> > > it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > >      
> > Sorry, I was working on getting that together, but I wanted to go ahead 
> > and get the word out asap.
> >
> > Basically, in places where I did this:
> >
> >    control:
> >       foo= ( /path/to/bin )
> >       bar= ( /path/to/data )
> >       result= ( ExecResult(${foo}/command ${bar}/file) )
> >
> > ... resulted in things not expanding to "/path/to/bin/command 
> > /path/to/file".  I have not actually tried the example above, although I 
> > will once I get some fires put out. 
> >
> > Anyway, here's some -I output showing the funky expansions:
> >
> > monaco: Executing script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
> > cfengine/clearingd.smf.xml              
> > cfengine/log/smf-update.last...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
> > monaco:f-manifest clea: /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest: 
> > cfengine/log/smf-update.last: cannot create
> > monaco: Finished script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
> > cfengine/clearingd.smf.xml               cfengine/log/smf-update.last
> >
> >
> > Reinstalling 2.1.15 with no changes whatsoever to the configs or 
> > anything else, I got this:
> >
> > monaco: Executing script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
> > /opt/tradelink/clearingd/etc/clearingd.smf.xml                  
> > /var/opt/clearingd/log/smf-update.last...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
> > monaco: Finished script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
> > /opt/tradelink/clearingd/etc/clearingd.smf.xml           
> > /var/opt/clearingd/log/smf-update.last
> >
> >
> > As you can see, the "/opt/tradelink/clearingd/etc/clearingd.smf.xml" 
> > somehow expanded as "cfengine/clearingd.smf.xml", and 
> > "/var/opt/clearingd/log/smf-update.last" became 
> > "cfengine/log/smf-update.last".
> >
> > I have not yet done proper debug runs; I'm tied up on damage control 
> > right now (this broke a lot of my stuff).  I saw nothing like this on my 
> > test boxes, although I can't say whether that was because I wasn't 
> > looking carefully enough or because it didn't happen on them.
> >
> >
> >    
>
>
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