Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Editing only the first line in a file Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21478,21534#msg-21534
It would have to read and rewrite the whole file either way, since I'm changing the first line. It seemed that the best I could do is to limit the lines upon which it also has to do a regex comparison. :) Yes, I'm using ifelapsed to limit the execution frequency, and (I think) backgrounding it. The reason I don't just distribute the files to begin with is that it's mostly perl files installed by an RPM (webmin), and I have to change the perl interpreter so that they will work properly when run under Apache rather than using the default miniserv.pl. We're additionally developing our own modules (which are additional perl scripts), and it's easier to do that through the webmin interface than to copy the files over + edit all of the places where the list of installed modules are tracked. So, the easiest overall solution (not that this is particularly "easy") is to let RPM and webmin put the files in place / track internal states, and just have Cfengine make sure the perl interpreter path is right. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
