hello sorry to rehash an issue, but i'm still not able to get this to work in spite of trying things suggested in previous threads. i've read these threads:
'Problems with ExecResult & ReturnsZero in 2.1.18' http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113582729300001&r=1&w=2 'ReturnsZero and redirecting output' http://cfengine.org/pipermail/help-cfengine/2006-March/000041.html we have some (embarassingly old) versions of Mandrake in our environment, and in cfengine 2.1.13, we use ReturnsZero to determine which Mandrake version a host is. groups: mandrake9 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/grep "Mandrake Linux release 9.0" /etc/mandrake-release) ) mandrake91 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/grep "Mandrake Linux release 9.1" /etc/mandrake-release) ) mandrake10 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/grep "Mandrake Linux release 10.0" /etc/mandrake-release) ) while testing 2.1.20, the above isn't working, spewing stuff to STDOUT. testing even failed when using grep -q. the upshot of the failure is that the correct class isn't getting set, as i can see all 3 of the above "mandrake*" show up in AddClassToHeap. i'll not yet paste debugging output, unless requested. i tested the above using various things, including putting quotes in different places, escaping the quotes, etc. i'll paste them at the very end. another suggestion i read in one of the threads was to create a "module" for this test. i'm not sure what is meant by that, i'll have to do more reading of docs. i could create a wrapper script to determine Mandrake version, and return the exit status, but i was really hoping i could stick with using grep. i suppose i could do something like this, and i hopefully write *one* script correctly to do the right thing. mandrake9 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '/tmp/am_i_mdk9.sh')) mandrake91 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '/tmp/am_i_mdk91.sh')) mandrake10 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '/tmp/am_i_mdk10.sh')) last question: is this bit of documentation still correct wrt ReturnsZero syntax? i tried exactly this syntax, and no workie. http://www.cfengine.org/confdir/define-class-if-string-in-file.html these are some variations i tried. certainly not exhaustive. if helpful, i can add portions of -d2 output from the client. mandrake9 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '/bin/grep "Mandrake Linux release 9.0" /etc/mandrake-release') ) mandrake9 = ( ReturnsZero('/bin/grep -q "Mandrake Linux release 9.0" /etc/mandrake-release') ) mandrake9 = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/grep -q "Mandrake Linux release 9.0" /etc/mandrake-release > /dev/null 2>&1) ) mandrake9 = ( ReturnsZero('/bin/grep -q \"Mandrake Linux release 9.0\" /etc/mandrake-release') ) thanks much, kallen -- "For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation." -- Rainer Maria Rilke _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
