I've updated my practical examples collection

2012-01-27 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
I've updated my practical examples collection: http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/cfengine/practical_examples.tar I added a few more examples. browse the collection with "ls -1" as the files are named alphanumerically Cheers. -at ___ Help-cfengine mailing

Student successes from CFEngine training this week in Palo Alto

2012-01-27 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. I'm pleased to share these student successes from this week's training in Palo Alto. I am next training in Los Angeles on Feb 20-22 (http://www.cfengine.com/training). If you know anybody who could benefit from high quality CFEngine 3 training, please send them my way. The examples prese

CFEngine Help: Re: negating a class in policy

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: negating a class in policy Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24467,24684#msg-24684 I don't think you can modify hard classes, which have_aptitude is. For the particular case you want, I think the best would be as Simon suggests

CFEngine Help: Re: $(match.1) with comment_lines_containing

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: $(match.1) with comment_lines_containing Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24529,24683#msg-24683 You don't mention which version of CFEngine are you using. With the latest (3.2.3) I don't see this problem. However, things in ge

CFEngine Help: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed? Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24682#msg-24682 If you have global classes, and you want to have a bundle that can act based on any of those classes, you could also use ifvarclas

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Anderson
On 01/27/2012 10:08 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed? > Author: davidlee > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24680#msg-24680 > > Thanks for the responses, which have been helpful. > > Now I thin

CFEngine Help: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed? Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24680#msg-24680 Thanks for the responses, which have been helpful. Now I think about it, my wish for a 'class' argument is really more like a boo

CFEngine Help: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed? Author: toddnni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24679#msg-24679 You can use global classes or define local classes from variable arguments like this bundle cf-agent my_bundle(class_arg) { clas

CFEngine Help: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: bundles: can a class argument be passed? Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24678#msg-24678 David, in general, classes are local and cannot be passed. One can define a global class, though, either using classes bod

Re: CFEngine Help: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Anderson
On 01/27/2012 08:46 AM, Jesse Becker wrote: > I don't think so. > > However, two possible workarounds occur to me: > > 1) Pass a variable, and use ifvarclass. > 2) Pass a variable, and use a classes: promise based on the contents to > set a class. > > (Both untested...) I'm guessing the place h

Re: CFEngine Help: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread Jesse Becker
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:58:35AM -0500, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: CFEngine Help >Subject: bundles: can a class argument be passed? >Author: davidlee >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24675#msg-24675 > >(cfengine community 3.1.4; RHEL 5.x) > >When writing a bun

CFEngine Help: bundles: can a class argument be passed?

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: bundles: can a class argument be passed? Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24675,24675#msg-24675 (cfengine community 3.1.4; RHEL 5.x) When writing a bundle with arguments (parameters), the descriptions and examples in the ref. man

CFEngine Help: insert_type: file: delays of many hours

2012-01-27 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: insert_type: file: delays of many hours Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24674,24674#msg-24674 (cfengine community 3.1.4; RHEL 5.6 on about 20 systems.) Most of our cfengine file-editing uses default insert_type ("literal") for i