Jesse,
The URL helped. Thanks.
Here are my files that may help others.
/tmp/templates/seed_file_list.cf
"/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_file4.txt
/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder2/create_file5.txt
/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder3/create_file6.txt"
/tmp/templates/variables.cf
"bundle common inputVars
{
vars:
"paths" slist => {
"/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder2/." ,
"/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder3/." };
"fnames" slist => {
"/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_file4.txt" ,
"/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder2/create_file5.txt" ,
"/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder3/create_file6.txt" };
"flist" slist => {
readstringlist("/tmp/templates/seed_file_list.cf", "#.*", "\n", 99999999999,
99999999999) };
}"
/tmp/templates/create_local_file_with_variables_on_file_reading_seed_file.cf
"#
# testing cfengine with following:
# file copy
# variable
# seed file
#
body common control
{
bundlesequence => { createFile(@(inputVars.flist)) };
ignore_missing_bundles => "true";
require_comments => "true";
inputs => { "/var/cfengine/inputs/cfengine_stdlib.cf"
, "/tmp/templates/variables.cf" };
version => "1.0";
}
body agent control
{
verbose => "true";
}
bundle agent createFile(x)
{
files:
#
# the stanza below creates folders and file if it does not exist
#
"$(x)"
comment => "create file",
perms => mog("755", "root", "root"),
create => "true";
}"
Regards,
J
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Becker [mailto:becker...@mail.nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:54 PM
To: Jerome Yanga
Cc: 'help-cfengine@cfengine.org'
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Creating folders via input file or variable cf file
Take a look at readstringlist():
http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#Function-readstringlist
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:36:37PM -0400, Jerome Yanga wrote:
>Thank you, Neil.
>
>With your direction, I got this to work with the variables.cf. However, it is
>quite a pain to create a slist variable with 150 elements. Is it possible to
>read a file with a list of 150 folder names? I am sure that I can create a
>script that creates this variable file but I am just hoping that Cfengine can
>just read a list in a file.
>
>Here are my cf files.
>
>/tmp/templates/variables.cf
>"bundle common inputVars
>{
> vars:
> "paths" slist => {
> "/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder2/." ,
>
> "/tmp/test/create_folder1/create_folder3/." };
>}"
>
>/tmp/templates/create_local_folder_with_variables_on_file.cf
>"# testing cfengine with the following:
># folder copy
># externaml variable file
>#
>body common control
>{
> bundlesequence => { createFolder(@(inputVars.paths)) };
> ignore_missing_bundles => "true";
> require_comments => "true";
> inputs => { "/var/cfengine/inputs/cfengine_stdlib.cf"
> , "/tmp/templates/variables.cf" };
> version => "1.0";
>}
>
>body agent control
>{
> verbose => "true";
>}
>
>bundle agent createFolder(x)
>{
> files:
> "$(x)"
> comment => "create dir",
> perms => mog("755", "root", "root"),
> create => "true";
>}"
>
>Regards,
>j
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org
>[mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of no-re...@cfengine.com
>Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:51 AM
>To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org
>Subject: Cfengine Help: Creating folders via input file or variable cf file
>
>Forum: Cfengine Help
>Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Cannot copy files to remote host
>Author: neilhwatson
>Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,22342,22395#msg-22395
>
>Variables are scoped locally. Your call for the paths list in the bundle
>createFolder expects a local variable in that bundle. That is where you
>should create that list not in a separate bundle. If a variable is likely to
>be used in multiple bundles then you can define the variable in the a common
>bundle. Common variables are called via ${bundlename.variablename}.
>
>Further reading:
>http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#List-variable-substitution-and-expansion
>http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-tutorial.html#Scalar-variable-expansion
>http://watson-wilson.ca/2011/05/managing-crontables-with-cfengine.html
>
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