Thanks both for the help. Some things to think about there. I've used
set_variable_values before for other config files but I feel that in
this case, it results in an overly wordy .cf file. I've also used
templates in certain circumstances. I will consider this further.
thanks again
GREG
On 03/09/12 23:22, Diego Zamboni wrote:
> 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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