Re: Log rotation question

[Chris Edillon]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Kirk Bauer wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Allen Bettilyon wrote:
> 
> >      disable:
> >             Sunday.IfElapsed86400::
> >                     /var/log/httpd/access_log rotate=52 size=<1000
> >    
> > That would run on Sunday and only if it hasn't ran for 86400 seconds (1 day)
> 
> This *looks* fine, but it doesn't seem to work (well, I tried the class
> IfElapsed20 and it never seems to be defined).  I can't seem to find any
> mention of this special class anywhere on Google...
> 
  according to the Tutorial, IfElapsed doesn't work per rule,
but per action (disable in the above case) and not all actions
at that.  check the docs at:

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html#Spamming%20and%20security

but basically it has to do with per-action locking so that
cfengine can prevent spamming through lots of cfrun executions
as well as "atom" locking when multiple cfagent processes are
running on a client using the same configuration files.  it's
not set in a rule, but in the actionsequence or globally in the
control: section.

chris