Cfengine Help: Re: package version

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: package version Author: eystein Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19552,19576#msg-19576 Hi, You should not quote the name of the package_method body (it's not a string, but a reference to a body of attributes). Try packages: any:: "$(any_

Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP! Author: mario Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19429,19577#msg-19577 What I think could be really helpful is linking CFengine functions used in the wiki (or whatever knowledge collection) with the refere

cf2: ANDing class-setting functions

2010-12-02 Thread Sven Hergenhahn
Hi, attention - cfengine2 !!! I'm trying to set a class based on other classes (compound statement), but seem to be running into problems: control: actionsequence = ( copy ) pyver = ( 'somevalue' ) classes: has_etc_dir = ( IsDir("/etc") ) has_ETC_dir = ( IsDir("/ETC") )

Re: Dynamic build of variable names

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Michael Potter writes: > I would suggest you approach the problem this way: > > bundle common hostinfo { > > vars: > >hati:: >"ip" string => "192.168.1.2"; > >srv1:: >"ip" string => "192.168.1.3"; > } > > bundle agent test > { >classes: >"ok" e

Re: Inconsistent cf-promises behavior

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Baudoin
Marc Baudoin écrit : > Marc Baudoin écrit : > > > > I've just got an e-mail from a Cfengine client saying: > > > > cf3:/var/cfengine/inputs/stg_storage.cf:17,0: Broken variable syntax or > > bracket mismatch in string ( $(s\321G@), near token '' > > cf-agent was not able to get confirm

Cfengine Help: merge two classes

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: merge two classes Author: Ferjama Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19581,19581#msg-19581 Hi, I'm new to cfengine3 and trying to convert my old configurations from cf2. Most worked well so far but I still got a Problem with the classes. Please ca

Cfengine Help: Re: merge two classes

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: merge two classes Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19581,19582#msg-19582 Stephan, the conversion is straightforward: classes: "srv_grp_a" or=> { "server_a", "server_3", "server_Bob" }; "cl_b" and

Cfengine Help: Re: merge two classes

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: merge two classes Author: Ferjama Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19581,19583#msg-19583 This was to easy. Thanks for your help! ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfe

Cfengine Help: Re: Dynamic build of variable names

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Dynamic build of variable names Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19565,19584#msg-19584 I've managed Bind with CF2 before. It was easiest to maintain normal Bind files and have CF copy them out to the DNS hosts. http://w

Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: cf-execd: is daemon or cron better?

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: cf-execd: is daemon or cron better? Author: berntjernberg Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19555,19585#msg-19585 Hi, Maybe you can configure the smf manifest to be of type "transient mode" which is like "run and forget". This w

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Dynamic build of variable names

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Dehennin
no-re...@cfengine.com writes: > I've managed Bind with CF2 before. It was easiest to maintain normal > Bind files and have CF copy them out to the DNS hosts. > http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html#SECTION00013 I'm doing the same with my CF2 setup and found that duplicatin

Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP! Author: JarleB Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19429,19587#msg-19587 How about using an existing service like http://snippler.com ? ___ Help-cfengine mailing

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
I'd be willing to administer an "index" page of Cfengine configs, pointing to people's wiki's, github or SVN repos, or websites/blogs. This would be more useful/accessible to the community if hosted on or at least linked from cfengine.org. This would give a (practical) mix of centralization and d

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
What's this? I couldn't figure it out from looking at the site, Jarle. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:35 AM, wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP! > Author: JarleB > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19429,19587#msg-19587 > > How about

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:01:34AM -0500, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: Cfengine Help >Subject: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP! >Author: mario >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19429,19577#msg-19577 > >What I think could be really helpful is linking CFengine f

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: cf-execd: is daemon or cron better?

2010-12-02 Thread Mike Svoboda
Yeah, but whats the point of using SMF if you're just going to "set it and forget it?" The power of SMF is that you want it to restart things when they have abnormal exit statuses. If you plan on using a transient SMF status that doesn't monitor the health of the process, then you might as well j

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:52:07AM -0500, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: Cfengine Help >Subject: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP! >Author: mark >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19429,19574#msg-19574 > >Let's try to make a short list of programs. In my experienc

Cfengine Help: Changing the default location for debugging files?

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Changing the default location for debugging files? Author: jgreer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19593,19593#msg-19593 Is it possible to configure the path where *.cf.txt and *.cf.html error-debugging files land, or turn them off? >From the man

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Burgess
> Could you elaborate on "taggable free submissions"? How is this > different from pages/snippets/code from having arbitrary tags, suitable > for later organization? > Just as you say -- submissions of a stream of raw text with som tags that can easily be scanned and categorized automagically.

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Extended solutions guide and YOUR HELP!

2010-12-02 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:57:55AM -0500, Mark Burgess wrote: > >> Could you elaborate on "taggable free submissions"? How is this >> different from pages/snippets/code from having arbitrary tags, suitable >> for later organization? >> > >Just as you say -- submissions of a stream of raw text wit

field_edit and duplication

2010-12-02 Thread Jesse Becker
I have a file (/etc/fstab) with well defined fields and subfields, and am trying to edit one of the fields, including removing duplicate entries. Here's the original line in question: /dev/md2 /scratch ext3 defaults 1 2 Here's what I want it to look like at the end: /dev/md2 /sc

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: ro Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19597#msg-19597 Thanks for the warning! I see this as a temporary solution until something native has been brought up.

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19598#msg-19598 >From my point of view, the wiser solution could be to flag package >installation by some global class which stops other package promis

Re: field_edit and duplication

2010-12-02 Thread Seva Gluschenko
Jesse, I could propose to replace field_edits with file_edits, for example, generic (library ready) body: bundle edit_line etc_fstab(device,mpoint,fstype,opts,passes) { classes: "already_there" expression => regline("$(device)\s+$(mpoint)\s+$(fstype)\s+$(opts)\s+$(passes)", "$(edit.filename

Set class on file changes

2010-12-02 Thread Simon Oxwell
Hi, I'm looking to solve two related problems and was hoping to be able to trigger them with classes based on a couple of conditions, but I've yet been able to figure out how to do them. They are: * Setting a class if a specified file changes * Setting a class if a speci

Cfengine Help: Re: field_edit and duplication

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: field_edit and duplication Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19596,19600#msg-19600 Perhaps storage promises could be enhanced to handle more than just NFS mounts. ___ Help-cfengine

Re: Set class on file changes

2010-12-02 Thread Seva Gluschenko
Simon, if you want to act on that file or directory, and there's no certain need to distinguish between a change and a moment of creation, you can place a promise on them and use action => if_repaired for trigger further changes when necessary. If you want to act on different objects using that f

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: field_edit and duplication

2010-12-02 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 03:21:08PM -0500, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: Cfengine Help >Subject: Re: field_edit and duplication >Author: neilhwatson >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19596,19600#msg-19600 > >Perhaps storage promises could be enhanced to handle more than ju

Cfengine Help: Re: Set class on file changes

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Set class on file changes Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19601,19602#msg-19602 I did look at this briefly some time ago. I don't think that there is a way using the current changes body.

Cfengine Help: Re: field_edit and duplication

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: field_edit and duplication Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19596,19605#msg-19605 Then the documentation seems of date. http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#mount-in-storage ___

run cf-agent on policy host

2010-12-02 Thread Sandra Wittenbrock
I want to run cf-agent on the policy host, so that the files and configs are updated. I'm getting the following error, which may or may not be related to running on the policy host. Thank you. cf3 Work directory is /var/lib/cfengine3 cf3 cf3: INFO: /var/lib/cfengine3/bin is a symbolic link, n

Re: run cf-agent on policy host

2010-12-02 Thread Sandra Wittenbrock
Please disregard my previous question. I now see what is happening here. Sandra On 12/02/2010 04:11 PM, Sandra Wittenbrock wrote: > I want to run cf-agent on the policy host, so that the files and > configs are updated. > > I'm getting the following error, which may or may not be related to >

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: ro Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19608#msg-19608 Hi Seva, okay, I did some testing using the above exec_command locking. Basically it did work, but I noticed that no output of the main run is recor

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19609#msg-19609 Sounds weird. Can you please provide more details upon that? Some important information is missing here, I think. What do you call main

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: ro Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19610#msg-19610 Oh, I just discarded my test setup... Main run... that's the initial, long and lengthy cfengine run that does all the really hard work - configurin

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19611#msg-19611 I would suggest checking process list to make sure your "main run" isn't stuck waiting for package promises to be done. For unknown rea

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: ro Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19612#msg-19612 I did check this; cf-agent had definately finished. ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengin

Cfengine Help: Re: Question on cf-agent locking

2010-12-02 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Question on cf-agent locking Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19613#msg-19613 Twice as weird ) But a bug report cannot be filed since details of your experiment left uncovered. ___