Re: passing environment variable to cfengine daemons

its been dawning on me , as this seemed to work pre 3.18 this might have to 
do with ENT-6182 . as the initial run is not triggered by
cf-execd this is very fishy.


On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:38:42 PM UTC+1 Xander Cage wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> because of this 
> <https://sites.ualberta.ca/dept/chemeng/AIX-43/share/man/info/C/a_doc_lib/aixbman/baseadmn/unix95.htm>, 
> i need to pass an environment variable to cf-agent (maybe all the other 
> daemons) to force aix to spit out iso formattet timestamps in my custom 
> reporting promises.
> i already exported this variable in the cfengine startup scripts, but this 
> only worked one single time, all subsequent agent runs do not consider this 
> setting and have messed up timestamps.
> setting this systemwide is not possible.
>
> desired format:
>
> 2022-02-14T14:58:11+0100 ;; syslog_low ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T14:58:11+0100 ;; Lcycle_0 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T14:58:11+0100 ;; have_fs__IBM_PROLOG_BEGIN_TAG ;; empty ;; 
> empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T14:58:11+0100 ;; GMT_Day14 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T14:58:11+0100 ;; GMT_Hr13 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T14:58:11+0100 ;; ipv4_172_17_9_179 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty 
> ;; empty
>
> bad format:
>
> 2022-02-14T15:01:15CET ;; syslog_low ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T15:01:15CET ;; Lcycle_0 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T15:01:15CET ;; have_fs__IBM_PROLOG_BEGIN_TAG ;; empty ;; empty 
> ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T15:01:15CET ;; Q1 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T15:01:15CET ;; GMT_Day14 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty
> 2022-02-14T15:01:15CET ;; ipv4_172_17_9_179 ;; empty ;; empty ;; empty ;; 
> empty
>
> illustration in python:
>
> root@nimvie: /root # set | grep XPG
> XPG_SUS_ENV=ON
> root@nimvie: /root # python
> Python 2.7.18 (default, May 31 2021, 11:28:01)
> [GCC 8.3.0] on aix6
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
> '2022-02-14T15:33:09+0100'
> >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z")
> '2022-02-14T15:33:14CET'
>
> root@nimvie: /root # unset XPG_SUS_ENV
> root@nimvie: /root # python
> Python 2.7.18 (default, May 31 2021, 11:28:01)
> [GCC 8.3.0] on aix6
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
> '2022-02-14T15:33:54CET'
> >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z")
> '2022-02-14T15:33:58CET'
>
>
> wbr
>
> chris
>
>

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