Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: warnings and promise compliance Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23315,23315#msg-23315
Today I wrote a files promise to keep a file's mode and ownership. The promise's action was 'warn_only'. I also have a commands promise that is warn only. What I noticed was that if either promise needed repairing the files promise was noted as promise kept while the commands promise was noted as promise repaired. Perhaps a promise that is warn only is always kept. However, that is not very practical. Typically, warn only proimses are used in early deployments and audits for the customer to get their feet wet while staying in the shallow end. If the promise is always kept it can be difficult to see any type of compliance report. This can lead to passive type promises that are so different to normal active promises that the rewrites from one to the other are costly. I think that warn only promises, that need action, should be marked as not kept. What is the view of the group? What is the official view of Cfnegine? _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
