Recursive cmsync not working as expected

[Pauliac]

Hi,

Is there a way to use "cmsync -r" to synchronize whole directories ?

SGLX version used :
node1# rpm -qa |grep serviceguard
serviceguard-A.11.18.06-0.rhel5

Here is an example. The directory was created on node1 and doesn't exist yet on node2.

node1# cd /usr/local/cmcluster/conf/pkg1

node1# ls -l test_dir
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 30 13:50 dummy
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 30 13:54 test_dir

node1# cmsync -r test_dir
## Copying to node node1...
## Copying to node node2...
cmcp: /usr/local/cmcluster/conf/pkg1/test_dir on node node2: not a directory.

Is it a bug ?

Thanks
M. Pauliac

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

file /usr/local/cmcluster/conf/pkg1/test_dir

Maybe its not a directory, it could be a file.

SEP

[Pauliac]

Hi again,

"test_dir" is a directory containing one empty file that I created on node1 in order to illustrate our problem.

It doesn't exist on node2, so obviously it's not a directory on node2.

I just want to know how we are supposed to use "cmsync -r". It doesn't seem to work at all.

thanks anyway

[Brem Belguebli]

Hi,

We have tried to use cmsync in place of one of our custom script to do so too, and get the same behavior.

Looks to me like a bug.

Maybe SG guys will be able to give their opinion, the behavior being the same on both SGUX and SGLX.

[smatador]

Hi,
For me, cmsync is just introduce in the new release A.11.18 to copy files and directory to multiple nodes.
I really prefer some custom script with old [rcp/scp] or newer with DSAU command such as ccp in /opt/dsau/bin
For HPUX, some patch exist to correct some bugs cmsync but for linux, i really don't know.
Hope it helps

[smatador]

DSAU consists of three primary components:
* Configuration synchronization tools - provide policy-based configuration management for groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
* Consolidated logging tools - provide centralized logging and advanced log filtering features. Specific support is provided for creating a highly available log consolidation server using Serviceguard.
* Command fanout tools - provide high performance tools for executing shell commands and distributing files across groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPDSAU

[Pauliac]

Thank you for your feedback.

We're also using custom scripts to address this problem for the time being.

I guess we'll have to wait for a bug fix.