Cfengine Help: Re: Controlling Module Calls

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Controlling Module Calls Author: nima Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18383,18469#msg-18469 Hi Seva, A reasonable suggestion again, but doesn't work - I must say, some things in cfengine do not follow any natural set of rules. Anyway, I've

"irreconcilable constraints" error when trying to set a role class based on a hostname. (Was Re: Machine types)

2010-09-23 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Problem: How to determine machine role from the hostname using Cfengine? Data: My server hostnames contain location code, department code, type (web/db/etc.) and environment (stage/prod/dev). For example: "lax-it-web01-prod01". Location: Los Angeles Department: IT Primary role: Web (first serv

Re: Using the Engine Room website is still VERY slow for me.

2010-09-23 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Correction: I was able to download the Special Topic Guides - it just took a long time. Truly, Aleksey ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Understanding how to use methods / bundles

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Svoboda
Help? This is kind of critical as it will determine the methodology on our execution of bundles from promises.cf... Its kind of concerning that cf-agent will let it fly but cf-know barfs. On 9/23/10 12:41 PM, "Mike Svoboda" wrote: Hey fellow cfengineers! Have a question and hope that this h

Using the Engine Room website is still VERY slow for me. Can't download Special Topic Guides... EOM

2010-09-23 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
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Re: Quickstart guide? [learning more about Cfengine classes]

2010-09-23 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Dear Francisco, I would recommend the Concept Guide (aka Tutorial), the section called "Decisions" http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-tutorial.html Let me know how that goes for you. And thanks for the tip about "cf-promise -v", that's a good one and one I use in my classes. Best, -at ___

Cfengine Help: Re: core files and AIX

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: core files and AIX Author: matter Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18361,18463#msg-18463 Looks like you compiled this with gcc. dbx doesn't really like that. dbx reads the debugging information which is in XCOFF format. gcc by default won't g

Cfengine Help: Re: Controlling Module Calls

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Controlling Module Calls Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18383,18461#msg-18461 Well, I'd rather suggest trying classes: !reindex_done:: "ReIndexOpenLDAP" expression => usemodule("ReIndexOpenLDAP

Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18456,18459#msg-18459 I don't think order is supposed to matter but, I have found this necessary in this one case. It mig

Understanding how to use methods / bundles

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Svoboda
Hey fellow cfengineers! Have a question and hope that this helps some other folks out as well. In my promises.cf, I define my inputs and bundlesequence as such: $ more promises.cf ... ... body common control { bundlesequence => { @(global.agent_sequence) }; inputs => {

Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: phnakarin Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18458#msg-18458 I'm a big fan of methods promise so I would do something like this following instead. body common control { bundleseque

Cfengine Help: Re: core files and AIX

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: core files and AIX Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18361,18455#msg-18455 Matter, Does this offer any good information. I'm a bit out of my depth with AIX. admzcws:/tmp# dbx /var/cfengine/bin/cf-monitord ./core Type 'help'

Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: cell Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18454#msg-18454 Something like you also Nicolas Charles replied to me in this post https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18449,18449#msg-18449

RE: cf-monitord: LDT Buffer full at 10

2010-09-23 Thread Justin Lloyd
Thanks, Mark, that's very interesting! Hopefully I can make time to read the whole paper, but after a quick skim of the LDT section, I found that the first paragraph in section 9.3 seems to explain the LDT buffer message. Hopefully that will allay concerns that Cfengine was somehow leading to an

Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18453#msg-18453 That is the message I would expect if the host is not a member of the machines class. Provide a default bundle for suc

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread Nicolas Charles
On 23/09/2010 17:21, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body > Author: neilhwatson > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18451#msg-18451 > > Try placing bundle common g in promises.cf above bundle com

Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: cell Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18452#msg-18452 I've tried it with no luck so far. Cf-promises -f gives me: r...@rain:/var/lib/cfengine3/inputs# cf-promises -f promises.cf

Cfengine Help: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18451#msg-18451 Try placing bundle common g in promises.cf above bundle common control. ___

Cfengine Help: Re: Test vs production CF environments

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Test vs production CF environments Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18427,18450#msg-18450 Typically I keep all my inputs in version control (usually Subversion). I am often able to use the same policy in testing as I would

Cfengine Help: Re: dynamic variable declaration

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: dynamic variable declaration Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18441,18448#msg-18448 Is there are particular reason why you would rely on a foreign file for Cfengine variable contents? I'm sure there must be an easier way f

Re: Cfengine Help: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread Nicolas Charles
Hi, I would recommend another approach for this issue. Defining the bundlesequence only if a class is defined sound dangerous to me. You'd rather define a list of bundles in a common bundle, and use this list in your bundle sequence bundle common g { vars : machines:: "bs" slist => { "garbage_

Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Controlling Module Calls

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Controlling Module Calls Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18399,18447#msg-18447 classes: "ReIndexOpenLDAP" expression => usemodule("ReIndexOpenLDAP", ""), classes => DefineSoftClass("ReIndexOpenLDAP_on

Cfengine Help: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: !!! No bundlesequence in the common control body Author: cell Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18446,18446#msg-18446 Hi, I am playing with Cfengine 3 for a while. I was able to solve almost every problem I ran into except one. When I define class

Re: Cfengine Help: dynamic variable declaration

2010-09-23 Thread Daniel V. Klein
Bernhard- It would help if I understood better what you are trying to accomplish with the array... but a few things: 1) Look at section 11.1.2 at http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#Introduction-to-functions for building array's from data 2) The error you're getting on this line

Cfengine Help: Re: core files and AIX

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: core files and AIX Author: matter Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18361,18444#msg-18444 I haven't seen any core files for some time now. What does the errpt or the core file show for a stacktrace? I did have some issue with exhausting the he

Cfengine Help: Re: Test vs production CF environments

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Test vs production CF environments Author: matter Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18427,18443#msg-18443 Interesting, I never saw that CVS article, but my set up is almost exactly like it. It does work very well. You can do a bunch of neat thi

Cfengine Help: Re: cf-serverd segfaulting

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: cf-serverd segfaulting Author: bbomgardner Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17924,18442#msg-18442 I started cf-serverd with gdb and waited for it to fail and got a backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x004

Cfengine Help: dynamic variable declaration

2010-09-23 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: dynamic variable declaration Author: bglomm Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18441,18441#msg-18441 hi all, Could anybody give me a hint on how to construct variable names during runtime (amount and names shall come from a "ls" command on a specif