Re: clarification on use of groups

[Lev Lvovsky]

Thanks for the help Mark, the second option may work when we have all 
of these files created automatically, I'll use the first for all sorts 
of testing - much appreciated!

bit of a brain fart on the dest thing, that's cfagent ;)

thanks again,
-lev

On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> Hi - you cannot specify groups in the admit section, but you
> can use groups to define classes that can be used to predicate
> an admit rule e.g.
>
> groups:
>
>   mygroup = ( +nisgroup )
>
> admit:
>
>  mygoup::
>
>    /file   *.domain
>
> Alertantively you could make a list:
>
> control:
>
>  list = ( a.b.c.d:A.B.C.D:m.n.x.y )
>
> admit:
>
>    file  $(list)
>
> The domain variable is used in cases where fully qualified names
> are not specified.
>
> M
>
> PS - there is no dest= in admit.
>
>
>
> On 24 Feb, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> > Hello - I'm new to the list, and a newb to Cfengine, so go easy ;)
> >
> > In setting up file copies in cfservd.conf, is there any way to
> > incorporate groups?  The only way that I've been successful with
> > copying files, is to specify something like:
> >
> > admit:
> >    <some file> dest=<some dest> server.domain.com
> >
> > I realize that I can use wildcards for the server name, but it would
> > seem that the use of groups would be much easier to work with -
> > allowing only groups of servers to get the files specified.  I might 
> > be
> > missing some basic concepts here.
> >
> > Also, I'm curious about the "domain" setting in the control section of
> > the cfservd, how does cfservd use this variable?  I still need to
> > specify a FQDN in the admit section.  Again,  I might be missing
> > something here.
> >
> > thanks for any advice!
> > -lev
> >
> >
> >
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