On Wednesday 05 October 2005 15:17, Mark Burgess wrote:
Jason, I'm not sure if you have told us what version you are using. Is
it the latest one?
I've confirmed these bugs on 2.1.15, planning on testing 2.1.16 this week.
However you've said that there were no major changes, so I assumed that if
any of what I was saying rang a bell you'd point it out. If these happen to
disappear with the new version, I will happily stop bugging you :-)
I am a bit sceptical about the need for such large
patches when hundred of people seem to be getting on fine.
Again, I realize that the things I'm seeing are relatively minor, but they are
still things that are broken and could be fixed. Hundreds of people may be
fine with extraneous log files and malformed email subject lines (personally
I could really care less), but I happen to have very picky eyes on this
project, and saying "oh, just ignore that" doesn't really cut it. However I
am in a position to try to improve things, so I'm offering my help.
Your message is hard to read, and is full of opinions rather than clear
facts. If there is a problem I would like to help, but I tend to ignore
long emails without clear content for lack of time. Best strategy to
prompt me into action is short and clear.
I can understand and appreciate this, that's why I keep trying :-) I'll try to
summarize below:
* When cfexecd sends email, the from address can be (in some circumstances)
set differently in the smtp 'MAIL FROM:' and the 'From:' header set in the
message data. Is this behavior desired? If not, I offer to help fix it. If
so, there seem to be some oddities which I would like to clarify.
* There are extraneous cfengine.*.runlog files getting generated. I have
studied the code extensively, and have come to the conclusion that cfexecd
has some flaws in the way it resolves hostnames. Assuming you agree to this
conclusion, I can offer a possible resolution, including a patch if you do
not have the time to provide assistance. All I ask is some guidance in
understanding your original intent.
Those are the two issues at a very high level. I can provide detailed
instructions on replicating the problems and snippets of code where I believe
things to be in error, but in the interests of keeping things simple to pique
your interest I will leave it at that. Thanks for your time...
-JayKim
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