On 4 Jan 2010, at 3:25 pm, Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 4 Jan 2010, at 2:52 pm, nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > >> Yes. You can do this. Here is a recipe with CF version 2. You'll >> have >> to figure out the Cf 3 way but the principle is the same. >> http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html#SECTION000200000000000000000 > > That method's a little unwieldy if you have large numbers of > clients. How large can a variable get? I personally have over 2200 > machines being managed by cfengine, and if I were to use that > recipe, I'd have a 24 kilobyte variable just to hold the names of > all the machines. I also have machines coming and going on an > almost daily basis, so I'd have to do something clever to populate > that list from an external module.
I've just checked, and certainly cfengine2 by default doesn't like variables that large, but it does give a meaningful error: cfengine:it-admin: Expansion overflow constructing string. Increase CF_EXPANDSIZE macro. So presumably I could solve it by rebuilding cfengine with a much larger size for that macro. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
