Centos 5, netlink, and events

[Peter Baker]

Hey all, polling rocks but events roll.

Do we know if god supports Centos 5? I have loaded up cn via modprobe
and lsmod shows it is there. /proc/config.gz shows CONFIG_CONNECTOR=m.

A god -V reveals Polls: enabled and Events: netlink.

But, when I fire up a config based on events, god proclaims ERROR:
Condition 'God::Conditions::ProcessExits' requires an event system but
none has been loaded.

I looked through the newsgroup and checked out intertubes but to no
eval.

Any pointers?

ps. What distros does god work on?

[Peter Baker]

Ohh yeah, uname yields Linux puppet 2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0 #2 SMP Tue
Feb 19 10:51:53 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[Moses Hohman]

Hey Peter,

Support for cn has to be compiled into your kernel (just enabling the module isn't enough), which for most distros (or at least so it seems, since everyone seems to have this problem) means you have to compile a custom kernel.

At least that's what I came to after looking into this a couple months back, I don't remember the exact reason at the moment, if someone knows better please correct me.

Moses