Re: repeated actions in actionsequence

[Mohamed Eldesoky]

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This is weired.
I tried to define an additional class based on a condition (testing for a 
file).

I made the file intentionally non-existent, to check if the action will run or 
not (it shouldn't), but it ran !!

snippits from cfagent -v

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Looking for environment from cfenvd...

Unable to detect environment from cfenvd

Looking for an input file /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf
cfengine::/bin/test -f /tmp/htp2.conf: cfengine:: Couldn't run /bin/test
cfengine::/bin/test -f /tmp/htp2.conf: cfengine:: execv: No such file or 
directory
Finished with cfagent.conf
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                  New temporary class additions
                  --------( Pass 1 )-------
                             this_is
cfengine:DB-Hosting: Executing script /etc/init.d/ntpd restart...
(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
(Setting umask to 77)
cfengine:DB-Hosting:nit.d/ntpd rest: Shutting down ntpd:   [  OK  ]
cfengine:DB-Hosting:nit.d/ntpd rest: Starting ntpd:        [  OK  ]
cfengine:DB-Hosting: Finished script /etc/init.d/ntpd restart




As you see, it has continued to execute the action, although the class hadn't 
been true !!


On Sunday 16 May 2004 2:40 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:02:02PM +0300 or thereabouts, Mohamed Eldesoky 
wrote:
> > It is the same class, alas.
>
> You need to separate them into different classes.  I'm fairly sure you can
> arbitrarily create classes to affect the order of execution in the
> actionsequence.
>
> actionsequence = {
>       copy.totallynewclass
>       copy.totallynewsecondclass
> }
>
> copy:
>       totallynewclass.other.classes.here::
>               <do stuff>
>       totallynewsecondclass.other.classes.here::
>               <do more stuff>
>
> --kurt
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