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I want to manage services on a rh based machine I configured the XML files which will manage these services, all seems to work correctly.. Config management works too and it detects which services are running using chkconfig. (when using verbose output on the client) The services specified below are names of services which are specified in the XML file on the server, and can be started perfectly with the init.d script.

It's not exactly a bug, I just can't find the reason why the bcfg2 client can't handle these services...

Could you tell me where to look at? I'm pretty sure the configuration side on the server is ok..

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Loaded tool drivers:

Chkconfig POSIX PostInstall? RPM

The following entries are not handled by any tool:

Service:None:network Service:None:sshd Service:None:syslog Service:None:netfs Service:None:rawdevices

/sbin/chkconfig --list|grep :on

< netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:on 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:on sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

Found active services:

netfs network rawdevices sshd syslog

r5389 added a .deb packaging dep on python-profiler based on a dep in bcfg2-server code.

python-profiler is not free software:

Ubuntu

As shown at ​http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python-profiler python-profiler is in multiverse, which is not enabled in default ubuntu installs, and is described like this:

"multiverse" component

The "multiverse" component contains software that is "not free", which means the licensing requirements of this software do not meet the Ubuntu "main" Component Licence Policy.

The onus is on you to verify your rights to use this software and comply with the licensing terms of the copyright holder.

This software is not supported and usually cannot be fixed or updated. Use it at your own risk.

Debian

As shown at ​http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python-profiler python-profiler is in non-free

The free packages go into main; the non-free ones into non-free, and the free ones which depend on non-free ones into contrib.

Discussion

I'm not going to comment on legal / ethical / moral issues at the moment, but from a sys admin annoyance POV this means that users running Debian and Ubuntu are unable to install bcfg2-server in a default configuration, and users of distributions like Trisquel and gNewSense that do not distribute any nonfree software will be completely unable to install it.

Relevant external discssion looks like:

• profile.py has non-free license ​http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/02/msg00103.html
• profile.py has non-free license - ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293932

The best overall writeup of the problem seems to be at ​http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00345

It looks like there is a project to replace with a freedom-respecting version at: ​http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyprof

It's marked as beta, last updated 22 Aug 2006. In a 2008 thread the author recommends against using it.

There is a more recent project at: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyprof/develop (​code) that includes threading support, but is marked as being alpha.

The most recent useful answer looks like in ​http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04552.html

> the python-profile is in non-free, so what free tool do you use for
> profiling your python programs? There is cProfile in python2.5, which
> seems to be free, but for showing
> the result I need pstat, which is again non-free. Is there a DFSG free
> way to profile python programs?

I use lsprofcalltree, which fires up KCacheGrind to visualize the
results of profiling from cProfile (aka lsprof).

It looks like there are some details on how to do this at ​http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Performance

I think it would be useful to be able to negate a package or specify that a package should be uninstalled(possibly purged with apt-get).

At the moment, I am using actions and dynamic groups to do this. The only problem is that the actions are run every time I run bcfg2.