Re: Need help with cfengine 2.0.2 editfiles/ReplaceAll

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Paul" == Shoemaker, Paul A <PASHOEMA@southernco.com> writes:

    Paul> Hello!  I am trying to upgrade from 1.6.3 to 2.0.2 of
    Paul> cfengine.  But cfagent is doing something that has caught me
    Paul> by surprise.

    Paul> I've got the following coded: editfiles: sparc.!restricted::
    Paul> { /etc/shadow Inform "true" ReplaceAll "^root.*" With
    Paul> "root:VoMhjHORJ/Ops:11856::::::" }

    Paul> This has worked fine under cfengine 1.6.3.

Yes. V2 has some extra checks so you don't replace everytime when the
replacement will match the match string. Try :-

ReplaceAll "^root:[^:]:" With "root:password:"

(Hmm, will that give the same error, not sure, if the password is
blank to begin with then ^root:: will work as a match)

    Paul> For some reason the warning appears to be reversing the
    Paul> search string and the replacement string, and the edit isn't
    Paul> being performed at all.

I think the warning was fixed in 2.0.3 or 2.0.4.

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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