Re: non-convergent file edit?

[Eric Sorenson]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu wrote:

>  > How does cfengine know between invocations that 
>  > "last time" we did it, so "this time" we mustn't?
> 
> "Last time" vs "this time" isn't an issue if you trigger ReplaceOnce
> with a define= class.  Or, think of it this way: "every time".
> Doesn't ReplaceAll behave the same way?

OK you're talking about something else. When I read ReplaceOnce I think,
"only do this edit one time over the lifecycle of the machine", which is
a different problem than what you're trying to solve.

-- 

    Eric Sorenson - EXPLOSIVE Networking - http://explosive.net