I can see the advantage to using a persistent class in this case. It allows you to have different timeouts for different events. If the wget fails, the "I failed to wget" class can have no persistence (so the next 5-minute run will try again) while the "I was able to wget" class may have a persistence of several hours (and maybe a splayclass as well) to prevent hammering the target server.
Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure Fax: (512) 602-0468 On 09/13/10 13:10, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Persistent classes Author: > neilhwatson Link to topic: > https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18183,18206#msg-18206 > > Persistence for the sake of it. I can't argue that. Perhaps attempt > the wget command, and upon failure set a persistent class. However, > I can't see much benefit to this versus using ifelapsed to limit my > wget promise to once every four hours. > > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing > list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
