Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Concatenating multiple files Author: SteveJake Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,27049,27062#msg-27062
So, /etc/hosts is just an example file. We're looking for a mechanism to do this for a number of different config files. Edit_lines promises are great, but the only mechanism I could think of for keeping the data separate from the promises using edit_lines is to read in the contents of the various files and use edit-lines to write them out if needed. Effective, but not quite as clean as what I was hoping to do with concatenation. Also, it's not that multiple people are maintaining the files, it's that there are multiple classes. There is a matrix of application, location and environment, where a given system is in three different classes based on those criteria. We could create a class for each combination of app, loc and env, but then we end up with dozens, if not hundreds of class definitions. But, if we could maintain a file for each app, another for each loc and another for each environment and then build our configuration files out of the combination of those files, then things become much more manageable. Does that make sense? thanks! -steve j _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
