Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: inserting lines into crontab Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23442,23467#msg-23467
Ryan's approach can become extremely difficult to do. You can end up having to craft wild regular expressions to account for what should not be there. In my experience it does not scale well. David, you can have Cfengine read a text file, like a real cron file into a slist (readstringlist). This separates cron data from Cfegnine logic. I would not describe Cfengine policy as the murky depths. My impression from your last message was that your team hoped to use Cfengine but were not keen on learning much about it. To use Cfengine to its potential you have to know how to create your own policy with confidence. Mistakes can be amplified across many hosts so be very thorough with testing. Do not be daunted. Learning just the staple promises of Cfengine, vars, classes, files, methods, commands and processes, can allow you to accomplish wondrous things even with very simple promises. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
