On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:10 -0500, Brian E. Seppanen wrote: > I have the following code > > classes: > host_groupa:: > usera = ( ReturnsZero(/usr/bin/getent passwd usera) ) > > > shellcommands: > host_groupa.!usera:: > "/usr/sbin/useradd -g usera -d /export/home/usera -s > /usr/local/bin/scponly -m -k /etc/skel usera" > > > So what that would do is evaluate a class usera if /usr/bin/getent passwd > usera returns 0 if that user exists on the host. The disadvantage of > this is that getent will provide output, which I don't want. I'm only > interested in the return code. I want any of the output to go to > /dev/null. So that is the first question. how can I take output from > the command passed to ReturnsZero and send it to /dev/null?
I switched from ReturnsZero(/usr/bin/getent ...) to a module to accomplish the same thing. As noted elsewhere, using /bin/sh -c and lots of quotation marks makes things hard to read. > The second question is: Does someone know of an easier way of testing > for the existence of a user that wouldn't require a call to getent? > Just wondering if there is a better solution out there. I think getent is probably the best solution as that will use what you have configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. .sf _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
