This is a reply from Mark Burgess (esteemed author of cfengine) regarding your question on cfengine...
Brian White wrote: This message was posted to the debian-user list. I thought you would be interested. > > I must admit, I've been a little lax in keeping the version of cfengine > that is available under Debian up to date with your releases. He'll be > running version 1.3.8. > ----------------- >In cfengine all machines belong to several classes, e.g >mail_server = ( tango ) >mail_client = ( samba rumba ) >home_server = ( samba ) .. >In a cfengine-file one can use these classes to perfom any action. But >when I want to perform the e.g. the following action >copy: mail_server:: do something mail_client:: do something home_server:: do something >the script doesn't perform the last entry for home_server on samba, >because the host samba already belongs to the class mail_client and a >action for this host is already performed. Isn't there a possibility >to test for all classes if the hosts belongs to it or not? >Dirk -------------------------- Mark Burgess (author of cfengine) replies: Hei. I think you have misunderstood. Cfengine will perform all the actions for defined classes. If it is not doing so, I would guess that there is some kind of misunderstanding going on. You could try to follow the voluminous output from the -d2 flag which gives debugging info, or -v for verbose to see whether all the classes you think are defined really are. Otherwise, I would definitely upgrade to 1.3.16 (Brian!) It has some nice new features and a few bug fixes, which might just help... good luck! BTW: there are now two cfengine newsgroups whcih have finally started working: gnu.cfengine.help gnu.cfengine.bug best regards, Mark ---------- Since Debian is going through a code freeze for its next release, I decided to leave the last version I had used without problem. I will release the latest version of cfengine in the next week or two. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]