clientupdate related bug?!

[Asif Iqbal]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a list of hosts with CLASS:myclass and I have a tar file
> newimage.tar file in ~hobbit/server/download dir
>
> In my ~hobbit/server/etc/client-local.cfg file I added this entry
>
>    [myclass]
>    clientversion:newimage
>
> This image suppose to add a new service called `mytest` in the status
> column for all hosts in that particular group
>
> I noticed only few hosts got that new service column `mytest' , after
> a little wait, and most did not create the new column
> I have a total of 40 hosts in that group
>
> I also noticed all of the hosts have the [clientversion] section in
> the client data showing the `newimage' as the version name.
> So hobbit server at least instructed the client correctly to pickup
> the new image and the clients were able to run the clientupdate
> command.
>
> All the clients have the new ext/newscript.sh and the
> etc/clientversion.cfg file (with content newimage)
>
> However, the clients that did not show the new service column is
> _still_ carrying have the old etc/clientlaunch.cfg file. It does not
> have an entry of the [newservice] section. So that explains why new
> service column is not showing in status page for those hosts.
>
> A working and non-working clients' hobbitclient.log file has same
> 'tar: blocksize = 0' . So tar xf probably did not fail.
> They all are same OS, solaris 8. So something in the non-working hosts
> preventing it from overwriting the old etc/clientlaunch.cfg file
>
> How do I debug this?

I made another update and same issue. Some of the hosts did not get
the new clientlaunch.cfg file.
I had to manually go through each of them just to add the snippet
related to the new extension script.

Would be nice if I could avoid that, afterall `clientupdate' claims to
do just that


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