Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Remote file comparison (md5) Author: pieterb Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,16771,16771#msg-16771
Hi all, I'm currently writing a set of promises that updates printers.conf if there are any new printers on the network. I intend to do this as follows: compare printers.conf from the client to a master printers.conf; if there is a difference, obtain the correct ppd's, and restart the cups daemon. I can't seem to find a way to compare the printers.conf file without actually having to download the file to the client; nor to compare files by md5 hashing. The way it works now is: download the file, compare mtime(). Is there a way to make this a little more elegant? Thanks, Pieter _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
