Re: non-convergent file edit?

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu wrote:
> > What should it do if I manually added a line in my motd that said "year is
> > 2004", and then ran cfengine? 
>
>It would sub "year is 2004" with "year is 2004", of course!  =:)

If i remember correctly, cfengine will only actually replace the file if
the contents have changed, so replacing "year is 2004" with "year is
2004" won't have any effect on the filesystem.

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