Also we can use function classify() to transform the fq hostname to canonical
form. :-)
"policy_hosts" expression => classify("cfengine.domain.com"),
handle => "global_classes";
"policy_hosts" or => {classify("cfengine.domain.com")},
handle => "global_classes";
Cheers,
--Nakarin
On May 5, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Sandra Wittenbrock wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Thanks for the swift response. And your suggestion worked! It was that easy.
>
> Sandra
>
> Justin Lloyd wrote:
>> Sandra,
>> The one thing that initially catches my eye is your definition of the
>> policy_hosts class. In your class list, you have a fully-qualified
>> hostname with dots but Cfengine "canonifies" all classes, turning dots
>> and other non-alphanumeric characters (dashes, etc.) into underscores.
>> So try this:
>> "policy_hosts" => { "cfengine_domain_com" },
>> handle => "global_classes";
>> Justin
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org
>> [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Sandra
>> Wittenbrock
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 12:36 PM
>> To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org
>> Subject: defining classes
>> Hello,
>> I've been playing with cfengine for a while, copying configurations, and
>> running them on my systems. Now I need to make then do what I need them to
>> do. For this I need to
>> define classes. I've been able to use hard classes to select when some
>> bundles are run, however
>> I've been unable to get the soft classes, I define, to work.
>> When I run cf-agent, the output tells me:
>> Skipping whole next promise (test1 Success policy_hosts defined), as c
>> ontext policy_hosts is not relevant
>> Here is the promises.cf file:
>> # Promises.cf
>> body common control
>> {
>> version => "0.1.1";
>> bundlesequence => {
>> "g"
>> };
>> }
>>
>> bundle common g{
>> # vars referred to as ${g.masterfiles} etc
>> vars:
>> "masterfiles" string => "/var/cfengine/masterfiles";
>> "inputs" string => "${masterfiles}/inputs";
>> "workdir" string => "/var/cfengine";
>> # add policy hosts, we only have one, 192.168.30.58
>> "phost" string => "192.168.30.58";
>> # define classes
>> classes:
>> "policy_hosts" => { "cfengine.domain.com" },
>> handle => "global_classes";
>> # The following reports section just tests the class definition
>> reports:
>> policy_hosts::
>> "test1";
>> linux::
>> "test2";
>> }
>> Thank you
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