clientupdate related bug?! need a debug switch for clientupdate

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I ran the following on two hosts, one where clientupdate works and one
>> where it does not.
>> I did not see it ever touched the clientlaunch.cfg file for either of
>> them. I am probably
>> not using the correct switches with truss.
>>
>> (hobbit):~/client$ rm etc/clientversion.cfg
>>
>> (hobbit)myhost:~/client$ export HOBBITCLIENTHOME=`pwd`
>>
>> (hobbit)myhost:~/client$ truss -f ./bin/bbcmd
>> --env=etc/hobbitclient.cfg ./bin/clientupdate --update=newversion
>>
>> This really begs a debug switch for clientupdate
>
> I took the tar file from ~hobbit/server/download dir and untar'd it
> (as hobbit user) on the hosts ~hobbit/client dir
> and all went just fine. I am guessing the clientupdate has a bug then.
> clientupdate pulls the necessary files
> for some servers and fail to overwrite the clientlaunch.cfg file

since the clientupdate is not so reliable, has anyone tried to use
rsync within the same port 1984?

since rsync works may be that can implemented within hobbit framework
to pull changes by the hobbit client when see a
new clientversion in client-local.cfg file on hobbit server?!



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