I guess I don't understand what you mean (or visa versa). What you describe seems like my "Another idea of having a cfagent.conf style file for each conf file" idea. I have ~30 conf files I want to be able do this to.
Roy On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Mark Burgess wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:43:45 +0200 > From: Mark Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Roy Marantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org > Subject: Re: program structuring > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-50.0 required=6.3 tests= > X-Spam-Level: > > Roy Marantz wrote: > > I'd like be able to run my cfengine conf files as part of a big run and > > also individually. i.e. cfagent.conf will import all the files for a big > > run and I can use cfagent -f to run a conf file individually. > > > > My problem is that I can't think of, nor find, a way to combine my common > > stuff while doing the individual run of the conf file. > > > > The obvious idea of importing the common stuff can't work because the > > imported info isn't visible to the code in the conf file. > > > > Another idea of having a cfagent.conf style file for each conf file is too > > ugly/messy for me to seriously contemplate. > > > > I find that I can > > cat cf.common cf.stuff | cfagent -f - > > but that seems wrong too. > > > > Anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Can a cfengine program read the > > command line arguments to cfagent? > > > > This just seems like a natural way to structure my cfengine code, I find it > > hard to believe I can't get it to work correctly. > > Thanks. > > > > Roy > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-cfengine mailing list > > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > > http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > The recommended way of working is to not keep anything in the conf file > except the import commands themselves. If you do that, the problem goes away. > M > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
