RE: FW: Tidy verbose output bug.

[Larson, Ryan B]

Using 2.1.11 on Solaris 8 compiled with gcc 3.4.0, berkleydb-4.2.52, and
openssl-0.9.7d.


Ryan Larson
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:24 PM
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Subject: Re: FW: Tidy verbose output bug.



I have tested this in 2.1.11 and it works fine. WHat version/platform are
you using?

M

On 22 Nov, Larson, Ryan B wrote:
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> Ryan Larson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larson, Ryan B
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:49 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Tidy verbose output bug.
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> There is a bug in the tidy.c that is triggered when you set the 
> verbose flag.
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> I setup a rule to delete anything older than 1 day in the /tmp/test 
> directory.
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> Here is the contents before the run as seen by ls -la
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> total 1056 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         178 Nov 22 11:43 ./ 
> drwxrwxrwt  16 root     sys         6768 Nov 22 11:43 ../ 
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       516392 Jan  5  2000 bash* 
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> Here is the cfengine output with the -v flag.
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> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tidying by directory 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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> cfengine:: Deleting file /tmp/test/bash
> cfengine:: Size=0 bytes, (-age=97 days 
> 
> Now, it doesn't seem to matter what timestamp or size, any file will 
> report Size=0 and {wacky character}-age=97 days.
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> I don't know c well enough to track this down, but I would guess that 
> a pointer is being overwritten.
> 
> Ryan Larson
> Unix Administrator 
> Office 312.362.3311 
> Cell 312.446.1773 
> FOC - A Goldman Sachs Company 
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