Re: dynamis class creation

[Mark . Burgess]

Not yet - but I have been thinking of this for some time...
Watch this space.

Mark


On 15 Jul, Kevin Ying wrote:
> Similar to this topic, is it possible to use wildcards in defined classes
> such that I can define a single class for all of 2_4_* ?
> 
> I tried doing this in 2.x and it did not work.
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> I think this came in around 1.5.x
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 15 Jul, Frank Smith wrote:
>> > Running cfagent with a bunch of -v's shows all the defined classes,
>> > and on a Red Hat 7.2 box the following distribution-specific classes
>> > are defined:
>> >
>> > redhat redhat_7 redhat_7_2
>> >
>> > I haven't tried it with the minor versions, but I did define a
>> > shellscript action for the redhat_6 class to send email and got
>> > an email from all the RedHat6 boxes (I was looking for boxes in
>> > greatest need of an upgrade).
>> >    BTW, this is on the 2.0.X version of cfengine, I don't know
>> > about the older 1.6 ones.
>> >
>> > Frank
>> >
>> >
>> > --On Monday, July 15, 2002 11:02:44 -0700 Bob Van Cleef 
>> > <vancleef@microunity.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> This has got to be an FAQ, but I can't find it anywhere.
>> >>
>> >> I want to define a custom class based on the level of OS.  So,
>> >> I wrote a simple little script that checks /etc/redhat-release
>> >> and returns rh60 for red hat 6.0 and rh6.2 for red hat 6.2
>> >> systems, etc.  Now, the question is, "How to use that script to
>> >> define a corresponding class?
>> >>
>> >> It appears that can create a separate line for each class:
>> >>   rh60 = ( "script that returns non-null only on 6.0 system" )
>> >>         rh62 = ( "script that returns non-null only on 6.2 system" )
>> >> which seems counter intuitive.
>> >>
>> >> but there does not appear to be a method for having a script
>> >> that returns the name of the class that you want to define.
>> >>
>> >>   define = ( "script returns name of class that is defined )
>> >>
>> >> There are enough differences between various versions of Red Hat that
>> >> this has become critical.  (Three different "amd" configuration files
>> >> for one example.)  The standard classes include the kernel level, but
>> >> not the OS distribution level.
>> >>
>> >> Bob
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