when calling a script with pump.conf's script directive I never get a useful IP as the third argument as per the man page. It's always something like up eth1 0.0.0.0
I've managed to replicate this only by letting pump fail on eth1, in which case it does exactly what you described. It shouldn't be running the script at all in this case (which I've fixed), but I have a feeling you're seeing something else? Is pump working otherwise? What script are you using? How do you know what the parameters look like? Is the script actually being run properly? Does /var/log/messages have anything useful in it? Does the script work properly on eth0 (can you test that?).
For what it's worth, there seem to be pretty weird things going on with the script on my system too (RH7.0, pump-0.8.3-2). With the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Script to modify /etc/hosts when pump gains a new IP address. # echo "pump-script running with arguments ($1) ($2) ($3)..." >/tmp/pumpscr.txt if [ "$1" = up -a "$2" = eth0 -a "$3" != 0.0.0.0 ]; then echo "pump-script doing its thing" >>/tmp/pumpscr.txt ( /bin/cp -fp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak && \ echo "$3 `/bin/hostname -s` `/bin/hostname`" >/etc/hosts && \ /bin/grep -v "`/bin/hostname | sed 's/\./\\\./g'`" /etc/hosts.bak >>/etc/hosts ) 2>>/tmp/pumpscr.txt # Bring up the firewall. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/firewall $2 $3 else echo "pump-script failed with arguments ($1) ($2) ($3)" >>/tmp/pumpscr.txt fi I get the "pump-script running" and "pump-script doing its thing" messages in /tmp/pumpscr.txt, followed by "/bin/cp: write error: Bad file descriptor". And if I change those "echo >/tmp/pumpscr.txt" lines to invocations of /usr/bin/logger, nothing at all gets logged to syslog. Anything else I can try? Thanks, Chris.
My setup eth1 as an interface to a cable modem, so your fix addresses my bug report. It is reporting the IP correctly now.
Hmm...upgrading to pump-0.8.4-1 and then downgrading back to 0.8.3-2 seems to have fixed the above: no more "Bad file descriptor" errors, and logging to syslog now seems to work fine. Very peculiar...
Old, dead bug.