cfexecd not using WORKDIR (affects: Red Hat 6.2, does NOT affect: Red Hat 7.1 or 7.2)

[Hugo Gayosso]

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Environment
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cfengine-2.0.a15
Red Hat 6.2
  # rpm -qa | grep glibc
  glibc-devel-2.1.3-15
  compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.2
  glibc-2.1.3-15


Error message
=============

# /usr/local/sbin/cfexecd --debug | more
cfexecd Debug mode: running in foreground
Directory for /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf exists. Okay
: Cannot make /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf/bin/cfagent. 
/var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf is not a directory!
Directory for /var/cfengine/outputs/spooled_reports exists. Okay



Patch
=====

$ diff -u cfexecd.c cfexecd.c.new
- --- cfexecd.c Mon Dec 17 10:25:14 2001
+++ cfexecd.c.new       Mon Dec 17 10:25:02 2001
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 
 sprintf(VBUFF,"%s/inputs/update.conf",WORKDIR);
 MakeDirectoriesFor(VBUFF);
- -sprintf(VBUFF,"%s/bin/cfagent");
+sprintf(VBUFF,"%s/bin/cfagent",WORKDIR);
 MakeDirectoriesFor(VBUFF);
 sprintf(VBUFF,"%s/outputs/spooled_reports",WORKDIR);
 MakeDirectoriesFor(VBUFF);



Verification
============

# /usr/local/sbin/cfexecd --debug | more
cfexecd Debug mode: running in foreground
Directory for /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf exists. Okay
Directory for /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent exists. Okay
Directory for /var/cfengine/outputs/spooled_reports exists. Okay




Systems NOT affected
=====================

(no patch applied here!)

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)

$ rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-2.2.2-10
glibc-common-2.2.2-10
glibc-devel-2.2.2-10

# /usr/local/sbin/cfexecd --debug | more
cfexecd Debug mode: running in foreground
Directory for /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf exists. Okay
Directory for /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent exists. Okay
Directory for /var/cfengine/outputs/spooled_reports exists. Okay

- ---------

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)

$ rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-2.2.4-19
glibc-common-2.2.4-19
glibc-devel-2.2.4-19


# /usr/local/sbin/cfexecd --debug | more
cfexecd Debug mode: running in foreground
Directory for /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf exists. Okay
Directory for /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent exists. Okay
Directory for /var/cfengine/outputs/spooled_reports exists. Okay
WildMatch(-,linux)


- -- 
Hugo Gayosso
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