I agree - for the specific example, set_variable_values seems like a good way
of doing it. You could also use a template with edit_template, and just insert
the values that you want, then the file will preserve the formatting from the
template.
--Diego
On Sep 3, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org> wrote:
> On 09/03/2012 05:10 AM, Gregory Matthews wrote:
>>> On 31/08/12 17:30, Diego Zamboni wrote:
>>>> Greg,
>>>>
>>>> You could split the lines into a list, then you can still pass them to
>>>> insert_lines but they will not be indented. Just separate them by
>>>> commas in your code, should work fine.
> undle agent test {
>> vars:
>> "eth00" slist => { "#comment",
>> "NETMASK=255.255.255.0",
>> "BROADCAST=172.23.7.255",
>> "IPADDR_START=172.23.4.1",
>> "IPADDR_END=172.23.4.1",
>> "CLONENUM_START=0" };
>
>> In other words, you /have/ to define the list as a variable in advance.
>> I tried playing around defining my own edit_line bundle but not had much
>> success so far!
>
> Hi Greg this isn't exactly what you asked about but I thought it applied to
> the general discussion.
>
> You might want to check out the edit_lines set_variable_values bundle.
>
> I attached an example of using set_variable_values, that also uses list
> iteration for more concise activation. It seems appropriate for use with your
> example.
>
> Also I think its also important to recognize the different between passing a
> list and a string to an edit_line bundle.
> Here is the output from executing the attached list_iteration.cf
>
> You can see from this output that /tmp/list1.txt gets edited multiple times,
> and list2.txt gets edited just once.
>
> cf-agent -KIf ./list_iteration.cf
>
> -> Created file /tmp/list1.txt, mode = 384
> -> Edited file /tmp/list1.txt
> -> Edited file /tmp/list1.txt
> -> Edited file /tmp/list1.txt
> -> Created file /tmp/list2.txt, mode = 384
> -> Edited file /tmp/list2.txt
>
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