Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: An advanced policy using template and variable substitution Author: msvob...@linkedin.com Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24105,24120#msg-24120
Hey Toddnni Using the MD5 sum copy from /etc/sysctl.final into /etc/sysctl.conf allows me to keep comments in the template that describes the variable. This lets the user understand when looking at /etc/sysctl.conf what the tunable actually does. I think using your approach, everything in the file would be deleted except the variables themselves. Also, it gives me an easy way of doing classses => if_repaired on line 309. Which will raise a class if a difference was detected, therefore allowing me to execute the sysctl -p command to read the values from the file and apply them to the live system. Also, in my backup_cp_md5_compare promise, I keep a backup of the previous config before I overwrite it. It allows me to keep a changelog / history of the config. Every time there is a modification, a copy of what was there is taken, and the new config is put in place, and when that change happened. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
