Misleading error message, host authentication problem instead of "file not found".

[Hugo Gayosso]

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cfservd was reporting (/var/log/messages) something like:

Jan  8 11:13:46 myhost myhost.mydomain.com[1776]: Host authentication failed or 
access denied (keys in correct dir?) 
Jan  8 11:13:46 myhost myhost.mydomain.com[1776]: Host authentication failed or 
access denied (keys in correct dir?) 


I verified that the hostname was properly resolved and that there were
no "secure" copy performed, and that there were no "keys" file
anywhere, and seeing that this was reported when cfagent was run in
one specific server, I decided to run cfservd with the "--debug"
option and found:


Received: [SYNCH 1010514495 STAT /var/masterconf/http/httpd.conf.ProblemHost] 
on socket 5
AccessControl(/var/masterconf/http/httpd.conf.ProblemHost)
Couldn't resolve filename /var/masterconf/http/httpd.conf.ProblemHost from host 
ProblemHost.mydomain.com
myhost.mydomain.com: Host authentication failed or access denied (keys in 
correct dir?)
SendTransaction(BAD: Host authentica...,len=64)
Transaction Send[t 64][BAD: Host authentica...]
SendSocketStream(72)
SendSocketStream, tosend 72
SendSocketStream, sent 72
myhost.mydomain.com: Host authentication failed or access denied (keys in 
correct dir?)
RecvSocketStream(8)
    (Concatenated 8 from stream)
Transaction Receive [t 53][]
RecvSocketStream(53)
    (Concatenated 53 from stream)


The file doesn't exist (that is fine), the error message is
misleading.


Greetings,
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Hugo Gayosso
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