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Bug 1374703

Summary:	pm{log,ie}conf refuse to update e.g. empty files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component:	pcp	Assignee:	Nathan Scott <nathans>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2016-09-09 13:01:58 UTC

The *conf tools are unfriendly to output files that have imperfect contents.  For example, a system crash could leave empty files where preexisting config files would be, and then pm*conf refuse to recreate them.  This behaviour is undocumented, and makes program-invoked use of pm*conf more complicated.  In particular, service-pmlogger's intermittent use of pmlogconf is crippled if the .../pmlogger/config.default file gets zeroed somehow.

% touch /tmp/foo
% pmlogconf -c /tmp/foo
pmlogconf: Error: existing "/tmp/foo" is not a pmlogconf control file
% pmieconf -f /tmp/foo 
pmieconf: error - /tmp/foo is not a rule customization file (bad header)
% pmieconf -F -f /tmp/foo
pmieconf: error - /tmp/foo is not a rule customization file (bad header)

These tools should be made more suitable for program-invoked use.

Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2016-09-11 11:59:23 UTC

"For example, a system crash could leave empty files"

So could a filesystem filling up.

Comment 2 Nathan Scott 2016-09-26 06:25:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1249123 ***