Re: passing environment variable to cfengine daemons

i tried it it in agent control...also no effect...

Variable name                            Variable value                     
                          Meta tags                                Comment 
      
default:control_agent.environment         {"XPG_SUS_ENV=ON"}               
                           source=promise                                   
      

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 9:39:29 AM UTC+1 Xander Cage wrote:

> 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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