Re: Re: cf-agent floods logs with execv errors

Thanks for the report Xander.

It does look like that bit of policy could use some refactoring to work on
systems without getent.

Probably we could use the `getuserinfo()` policy function instead which
includes the home_dir entry.
https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.21/reference-functions-getuserinfo.html

Let us know if you want to work on the fix.

I created a ticket:
https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/CFE-4375

-Craig

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 6:31 AM Xander Cage <[email protected]>
wrote:

> a quick grep in the masterfiles showed two instances of a getent call...
>
> root@nimvie: /var/cfengine/masterfiles # grep -r getent *
> lib/paths.cf:      "path[getent]"        string => "/usr/bin/getent";
> lib/vcs.cf:        string => execresult("$(paths.getent) passwd
> $(repo_uid)", noshell),
>
> vcs.cf seemst to be the culprit...
>
> On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 12:12:48 PM UTC+2 Xander Cage wrote:
>
>> i was just informed the getent is not a linux specific thing but is part
>> of posix . anyway, its not in aix so still a fix is necessary.
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 11:26:08 AM UTC+2 Xander Cage wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> cf-agent complains about /usr/bin/getent not found. as this is an aix
>>> environment this
>>> makes no sense. getent is a linux thing.
>>>
>>> Apr 16 09:36:35 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[10617102]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 09:41:25 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[2556430]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 09:46:15 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[36569520]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 09:51:06 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[18416128]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 09:55:56 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[54067624]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:01:47 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[459462]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:06:37 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[20120026]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:11:27 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[58458376]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:16:17 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[58458558]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:21:07 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[17564104]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:25:57 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[43057456]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:31:48 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[23462412]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:36:37 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[4325842]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:41:28 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[52036014]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:46:18 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[18875116]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:51:09 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[43057622]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>> Apr 16 10:55:58 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[46203222]:
>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or
>>> directory)
>>>
>>> needs to be fixed...
>>>
>>> wbr
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
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