Re: shell command classes don't work?

[Paul Krizak]

I've experienced this problem, too.

I believe the problem is because the shell commands that are allowed in 
'classes' are just commands -- you're not allowed to use any 
metacharacters or anything.  Not sure why, but a simple command with no 
metacharacters works fine, and something with "grep" like you have 
doesn't work.  My workaround looks like this:

import:

       cf.classes

control:

       actionsequence = ( shellcommands )

       chkfontpath = ( /usr/sbin/chkfontpath )
       grep        = ( /bin/grep )

shellcommands:

       redhat_7_3::
               "$(chkfontpath) --list | $(grep) -q cyrillic"
                       define=broken_fontpath

       broken_fontpath::
               "$(chkfontpath) -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
               "$(chkfontpath) -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
               "$(chkfontpath) -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
               "$(chkfontpath) -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"

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Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> I've got the following file /home/kgrossjo/tmp/cfagent.conf:
>
> control:
>    actionsequence = ( shellcommands )
>
> classes:
>    x = ( '/usr/bin/lspci | /bin/grep -q "Intel.*PRO/100 VE"' )
>
> shellcommands:
>    x::
>         "/bin/echo yes"
>
> Below, you can find the output that's generated.  Why does this fail
> to define the class x?
>
> This is using the cfengine2 package from Debian unstable.
>
> Kai
>
>