Occasional problem with InCommon metadata refreshes

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/26/14, 4:20 PM, "Brian Koehmstedt" <bkoehmstedt at ucmerced.edu> wrote:

>When this happens, Shib IdP appears to me to act like it has loaded a
>0-byte InCommon metadata file, where it doesn't find any InCommon SP
>metadata.

That's never happened to me, ever, so I have to think it's something
environmental. I've seen it once in maybe 3 years actually stop
refreshing, which some other people have reported, but I've never had it
dump the valid copy.

>And we have a crontab that runs at 1am every night that downloads the
>metadata file to a temp location and once the download is complete,
>moves it to 
>/local/users/shib/cvs/shibboleth/conf/incommon/InCommon-metadata.xml.

So my guess is some kind of race condition with the overwrite of the
metadata or something like that, so switching to the intended approach of
letting the IdP download it might clear that up.

-- Scott