Cfengine does indeed work that way, but it is possible that it reports differently in promises repaired. I have not had time to reply carefully to this, but I will try to do so if you are willing to wait.
M Justin Lloyd wrote: > Neil, > > You may recall from our previous discussion about this and the testing I did > (with the nodename file example, my email from 2/5 at 11:27 AM MST) that > Cfengine doesn't appear to work that way. > > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into them and report back on the > results. > > Justin > > -----Original Message----- > From: nwat...@symcor.com [mailto:nwat...@symcor.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:28 AM > To: Justin Lloyd > Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org; help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org > Subject: RE: Deleting lines from a files that don't match a list > > I was under the impression that when editing files Cf3 can be made to > apply all edits to a copy in memory and then only update the target file > if the result was a change. It might be worth more testing. Other > options are use a template with expand_scalars or writing a module with > your favourite regex language. > > Reference: > https://cfengine.org/pipermail/help-cfengine/2009-November/006635.html > > Sincerely, > -- > Neil Watson > 416-673-3465 > > This electronic communication and any attachments may contain confidential > and proprietary > information of DigitalGlobe, Inc. If you are not the intended recipient, or > an agent or employee > responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, or > if you have received > this communication in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, > disseminate or > otherwise use the information. Please indicate to the sender that you have > received this > communication in error, and delete the copy you received. DigitalGlobe > reserves the > right to monitor any electronic communication sent or received by its > employees, agents > or representatives. > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
