Chris- Well, actually I think Cfengine is doing what it was supposed to, then :-)
Rather than resort to hoop-jumping, why not just get in the habit of executing your policy immediately after you check it in, to test for missed bugs? -Dan On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:17 AM, C R Ritson wrote: >> I agree with Seva about hard classes. But this makes me ask: why are >> you so erratically validating your promises? Why not every 5 minutes, > > This started when I was deluged by a weekend's-worth of mail every 5 minutes, > because a syntax error had been overlooked and caused a noisy back-off to > failsafe. Yes, I half expected a suggestion that all sensible people used > if_elapsed. > > Chris Ritson (Computing Officer and School Safety Officer) > > Room 707, Claremont Tower, EMAIL: c.r.rit...@ncl.ac.uk > School of Computing Science, PHONE: +44 191 222 8175 > Newcastle University, FAX : +44 191 222 8232 > Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU. WEB : http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine