That is really strange. You can try the 3.20 ubuntu package to see if
the problem still is there.
We are using suse/redhat/debian and did not see this issue.
On 23/09/2022 13:47, 'Robert Markula' via help-cfengine wrote:
> Hi Bas,
>
> thanks for trying to reproduce the error. The host is running on Ubuntu
> 20.04. If I downgrade to Cfengine 15.2, then sys.fqhost is working
> correctly. As soon as I upgrade to Cfengine 18.2 or above, the error
> appears. There is no change on the configuration or the masterfiles
> between upgrading/downgrading.
>
> <snip>
> root@test1:~# *cat /etc/hosts*
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1
test1.example.com test1
>
> ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
>
> root@test1:~# *cat /etc/hostname *
> test1
>
> root@test1:~# *cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname*
> test1
>
> root@test1:~# *echo $HOSTNAME*
> test1
> </snip>
>
> I have absolutely no idea where redundant space characters are coming
> from. This is so weird.
> Bas van der Vlies schrieb am Freitag, 23. September 2022 um 11:03:35 UTC+2:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> On which OS?
> I have done dome tests and I also rely on this variable. But on our
> machines I do not see this weird behaviour.
>
> You can check:
> ```
> /etc/hosts for networking
> /etc/hostname : This will be read by boot scripts on boot time and
> set its value.
> /proc/sys/kernel/hostname : Current hostname.
> /etc/sysconfig/network : Networking (HOSTNAME=”server1″ parameter)
> ```
>
> maybe there is some weird character somewehere
>
>
>
> On 23/09/2022 10:37, 'Robert Markula' via help-cfengine wrote:
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> > Since the upgrade from Cfengine 3.15 to 3.18 I can observe a weird
> > '*sys.fqhost*' value.
> >
> > In 3.15.2 this variable is correct:
> > default:sys.fqhost
test1.example.com <
http://test1.example.com>
> >
> inventory,source=agent,attribute_name=Host
> > name
> >
> > In 3.18.2 and 3.20.0 however, there are numerous spaces around
> the hostname:
> > default:sys.fqhost
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > test1.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
example.com <
http://example.com>
> > inventory,source=agent,attribute_name=Host name
> > default:sys.uqhost test1
> >
> inventory,source=agent,attribute_name=none
> > default:sys.domain
example.com <
http://example.com>
> > source=agent
> >
> > Note the many spaces between the hostname and the domain name.
> >
> > Accordingly, cf-exec fails to run with his message in
> /var/log/syslog:
> > error: Couldn't open
> >
> '/var/cfengine/outputs/cf___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________test1_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________example_com__1663916430_Fri_Sep_23_09_00_30_2022_0x7ff5fa880b80' - aborting exec. (fopen: File name too long)
> >
> > 'hostname -f' gives:
> >
test1.example.com <
http://test1.example.com>
> >
> > root@test1:~# hostname
> > test1
> >
> > And in the body common control in
promises.cf
> <
http://promises.cf> I have set:
> > body common control
> > {
> > [...]
> > domain => "
example.com <
http://example.com>";
> > [...]
> > }
> >
> > And, for completeness sake:
> > root@test1:~# cat /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 127.0.1.1
test1.example.com <
http://test1.example.com> test1
> >
> > ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> >
> > root@test1:~# cat /etc/hostname
> > test1
> >
> > So I have absolutely no idea where these spaces are coming from.
> Any ideas?
> >
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