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2.1.19p1 misidentifies if server is VMWare ESX


From: Jamie McKnight
Subject: 2.1.19p1 misidentifies if server is VMWare ESX
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:27:48 -0500 (EST)
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During testing of 2.1.19p1 I noticed that the class VMWare_ESX was defined
on a machine that was not an ESX image or server.  Looking at misc.c, it
appears that if you can stat /etc/issue, cfengine defines the VMWare_ESX
class.

src/misc.c:

836 if (stat("/etc/issue",&statbuf) != -1)
837    {
838    Verbose("\nThis appears to be a VMWare ESX system.\n");
839    AddClassToHeap("VMWare_ESX");
840    ESX_version();
841    }

Shouldn't that be checking for the existence of the VMware-esx rpm, or the
existence of the /etc/vmware directory, and not relying on stat'ing
/etc/issue?  We drop /etc/motd and /etc/issue files on every host that
print out a big warning banner.

If I need to provide more info please let me know.


Jamie





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