Re: Need help with cfengine 2.0.2 editfiles/ReplaceAll

[Mark . Burgess]

Cfengine is telling you that this rule will never stop. It will perform
an edit every time cfengine runs, which is contrary to the idea of
stable config. To force it through once, you can make the regexp you
search for NOT match the string you replace with somehow, but I can't
think how in your case at the moment.

There should probably be an option to force this once only. 
I shall think about this perhaps someone else has a suggestion.


Mark

On  3 Oct, Shoemaker, Paul A. wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am trying to upgrade from 1.6.3 to 2.0.2 of cfengine.  But cfagent
> is doing something that has caught me by surprise.
> 
> I've got the following coded:
> editfiles:
>    sparc.!restricted::
>       { /etc/shadow
>          Inform "true"
>          ReplaceAll "^root.*" With "root:VoMhjHORJ/Ops:11856::::::"
>       }
> 
> This has worked fine under cfengine 1.6.3.
> 
> But when I run the 2.0.2 cfagent, with the options -v -q, I get the
> following:
> Begin editing /etc/shadow
> Checking for replace/^root:.*/root:VoMhjHORJ/Ops:11856::::::
> cfengine:sixap06w: WARNING: Non-convergent edit ReplaceAll
> [root:VoMhjHORJ/Ops:11856::::::] With [^root:.*]
> cfengine:sixap06w: Line begins [root:74Q5zDNWiXKx2:11962::::::]
> cfengine:sixap06w: Replace contains search string - edit was not done
> cfengine:sixap06w: Error editing file /etc/shadow
> 
> For some reason the warning appears to be reversing the search string and
> the replacement string, and the edit isn't being performed at all.
> 
> This is happening on a SPARCstation 20 (sun4m) running Solaris 8.  I built
> cfengine 2.0.2 on another sun4m machine running Solaris 6.
> 
> Any help with why the ReplaceAll is failing would be appreciated.
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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