Re: shell command classes don't work?

[Christian Pearce]

Oh yea, let's not forget we need ReturnsZero().


groups:
    sudo_installed = ( ReturnsZero(${pkginfo} -q SMCsudo) )

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:36, Paul Krizak wrote:
> 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
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
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