Mac OS X Jaguar notes and questions

[Dave Botsch]

Hi, Folks.

Here at CCMR, we are using cfengine to do a large part of keeping our 
Macintosh 10.2 computers up to date with various things.

At the moment, in concert with our linux computers, we are running 
cfengine 1.2

For the most part it works great (it just compiled and made with out any 
tinkering around, which was also great).

Two issues:

1. defining a class with the Define=classname does not seem to work 
under OS X. For whatever reason, cfengine seems to just be ignoring 
these define statements and not defining classes when doing something 
like copying a new config file, etc.

example:

        AddInstallable = ( ReloadCups )

(snip)

        $(masterfiles)/$(sys)/etc/cups/printers.conf 
dest=/etc/cups/printers.conf type=sum mode=0655 owner=daemon group=admin 
define=ReloadCups
        $(masterfiles)/$(sys)/etc/cups/ppd dest=/etc/cups/ppd type=sum 
mode=0755 owner=daemon group=admin recurse=inf define=ReloadCups

(snip)

       ReloadCups::
            "/bin/touch /tmp/test.cups"

as an example of what to try when the real script there fails to 
execute. Nothing is ever touched. Maybe this has been fixed in a later 
version? Maybe I am missing something? Maybe it is a bug that still 
exists?

2. Resource forks

With non-resouce fork filesystems or files that don't require the 
resource forks, we can do like above with the printers.conf file. But 
what about files that have resource forks? Can we do something other 
than just recopying them using /Developer/Tools/CpMac every time 
cfengine runs?


Thanks!!
-Dave Botsch
CCMR Computing Facility