RE: copy action trigger another action

[Wheeler, John]

I do this right now to facilitate central logging and log rotation. Maybe I don't understand your question. What do you mean by "trigger an action"?

import:
        nsswitch.conf

control:
        actionsequence  = (
                        editfiles.syslog
                        copy.syslog
                        process.syslog
                        shellcommand.syslog

editfiles:

        syslog::

                { /etc/hosts
                        BeginGroupIfNoSuchLine "0.0.0.0   loghost loghost.eb.com"
                        ReplaceAll "loghost" With ""
                        GotoLastLine
                        Append "0.0.0.0   loghost loghost.eb.com"
                        EndGroup
                }

copy:

        syslog::

                /cfengine/classes/corp/etc/syslog.conf
                        dest=/etc/syslog.conf
                        mode=644
                        type=checksum
                        inform=true
                        server=$(masterhost)
                        define=hupsyslogd

        syslog.corp28::

                /cfengine/classes/corp28/etc/init.d/syslog
                        dest=/etc/init.d/syslog
                        mode=744
                        type=checksum
                        inform=true
                        server=$(masterhost)
                        define=restartsyslogd
processes:

        syslog.hupsyslogd::
                "syslogd"
                        signal=hup
                        inform=true

        syslog.restartsyslogd::
                "syslogd"
                        restart "/etc/init.d/syslog stop;/etc/init.d/syslog start"
                        inform=true

shellcommands:

        syslog.restartsyslogd::
                '/usr/bin/logger -p user.warning "warn:restarted syslogd"'

        syslog.hupsyslogd::
                '/usr/bin/logger -p user.warning "warn:restarted syslogd"'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Campi [mailto:nate@campin.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:41 AM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: copy action trigger another action
>
>
> I'm interested in people's thoughts on whether it would be
> useful to have successful copies trigger an action. I'm
> thinking along the lines of sending a HUP to a daemon when
> it's config file is updated.
>
> With most daemons it is fine to simply HUP every time cfagent
> runs, but with syslog-over-tcp my connections drop and have
> to restablish every time the syslog daemon is HUP'd. During
> the period that the connection is waiting to re-establish
> (one minute) the buffering logs might overflow and start
> getting dropped before being sent on to the loghost when the
> connection is re-established.
>
> I'd imagine I could write a cfengine module to do this, but
> I'm not much of a programmer and would rather it was
> implemented in the core and done Right(tm).
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> Nate Campi   http://www.campin.net
>
> "A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right
> away. He
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>
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