Re: dash in hostname causes error

[Phil D'Amore]

-'s are not allowed.  Cfengine processes classes that it sets (hostname,
os, etc), and changes anything that is basically not [A-Za-z_] and
changes it to a _ character.

so

test-machine.example.com 

becomes

test_machine_example_com

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 07:14, mark@thompson-family.de wrote:
> I am using cfengine 2.1.10 on solaris 8.  I am trying to set a variable
> based on the host I am on with the following statements:
> 
> control:
>         
>   hostname::
>     variable_1 = ( value )
>   
>   host-name::
>     variable_1 = ( value )
> 
> When I run cfagent, I get the following error message:
> 
> cf:cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/cf.groups:24: syntax error 
> Stray character (-)Looking for an input file cf.main
> 
> When I comment out the lines for the hostname with the dash then
> everything runs correctly.  
> 
> I have searched google and looked in the docs, but can't find any
> reference to not using hostnames with dashes in them.  
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or at least point me in the
> right direction?
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
> 
> 
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