Re: passing environment variable to cfengine daemons

setting this in my local def.cf seems to not have any effects...

root@aixstp19prdbc2: /var/cfengine # /var/cfengine/bin/cf-agent -KI 
--show-evaluated-vars=environment
...
Variable name                            Variable value                     
                          Meta tags                                Comment 
      
default:def.environment                   {"XPG_SUS_ENV=ON"}               
                           source=promise                           aix is 
not unix horseshit
default:stdlib_common.input[guest_environments] 
/var/cfengine/inputs/lib/guest_environments.cf               source=promise 
                          

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 9:11:59 AM UTC+1 Xander Cage wrote:

> ashes on my head, but i never heard of that *gg*
> can this be set in def.json because..
>
>   notice: Q: ".../cf-agent" -f /":    error: Command related to promiser 
> '"/var/cfengine/bin/cf-execd"' returned code '1' defined as promise failed
> Q: ".../cf-agent" -f /":   notice: Q: ".../cf-execd"": 
> /var/cfengine/inputs/ITSVlib/itsv_reporting.cf:1:0: error: Duplicate 
> definition of body control with type agent
>
> and i want to avoid modifying MPF
>
>
> On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 5:48:30 PM UTC+1 Nick Anderson wrote:
>
>> Xander Cage <[email protected]> writes: 
>>
>> 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. 
>>>
>> Hi Chris, 
>>
>> Did you set environment in body agent control (controls/cf_agent.cf)? 
>> Listing 1: Example Policy
>>
>> body agent control{
>>   with_env::
>>     environment => { "XPG_SUS_ENV=ON" };}      bundle agent __main__{
>>   reports:
>>       "ENV XPG_SUS_ENV='$(with)'" with => getenv( "XPG_SUS_ENV", inf );}
>>
>>
>> # cf-agent --no-lock --log-level info --file /tmp/cf-agent-environment-vars.cf
>> R: ENV XPG_SUS_ENV=''
>>
>>
>> # cf-agent --define with_env --no-lock --log-level info --file /tmp/cf-agent-environment-vars.cf
>> R: ENV XPG_SUS_ENV='ON'
>>
>>

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