Re: Defining a class based on file contents

[Chip Seraphine]

Great!

What is the syntax for this?  I tried the obvious (see below) but it failed.

editfiles:

   { /tmp/foo
       BeginGroupIfNotDefined "noclass"
           DefineClasses "foo1:foo2"
       EndGroup
   }

This produces "cf:cfengine::/home/titan/chip/cfagent-test.conf:136: 
Class definitions inside conditionals or loops are not allowed "

mark@iu.hio.no wrote:

> You can define classes in a conditinal block as of 2.0.6.
> 2.0.7 is just around the corner, in spite of my saying the
> 2.1.0 would be thenext version...
>
> M
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> On 12 May, Chip Seraphine wrote:
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> > I have a situation where I would like to define a class based on the 
> > contents of the file, but do not wish to actually modify the file 
> > itself.   Does anybody know a good way to do this (other than using a 
> > module or shellcommand)?
> >
> > I have tried "|BeginGroupIfNoLineContaining" and such, but this doesn't 
> > do the trick because I can't define classes inside the conditional 
> > block.  There is no "touch" type command either, so I am not sure of a 
> > safe way to fool cfengine into thinking the file has been edited without 
> > doing something dangerous (changing the file) or silly (editing the file 
> > and then removing the edit).  I was trying to do something clever with 
> > "abort" and "catchabort", but that doesn't seem well suited to this either.
> >
> > Has anybody else solved a problem like this?
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