Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Edit selected files Author: Beto Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17747,17870#msg-17870
For anyone interested the bug report I opened (0000190) was closed with no resolution. It was stated that allowing a file_select with edit_line is "too big a hammer". Excuse me, but couldn't the same statement be made about logging in as root? The two proposed alternative solutions aren't sufficient: 1. Editing a list of knows files. The file names are unknown other than they start with a "." and are in user's base home directory (not subdirectories). 2. Editing a pattern (e.g., "/home/admin/.*/\..*"). This fills /var/cfengine/outputs with the utterly useless and unsuppressible message "Directory /home/admin/usera in search path /home/admin/usera/\..* is controlled by another user (uid 10105) - trusting its content is potentially risky (possible race)". Very disappointing response for such a simple requirement, i.e., edit a user's "dot" files... So, I've come up with yet another kluge work-around: a module that finds the files of interest and returns then in a variable. Problem: the maximum variable size evidently is 4k and the variable content is truncated. Additionally, the following unwanted messages are logged every time the module is called: -> Executing '/var/cfengine/modules/FindDotFiles' ...(timeout=-678,owner=-1,group=-1) M "/var/cfengine/modules/FindDotFiles": -> Completed execution of /var/cfengine/modules/FindDotFiles The never ending saga... _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
