Re: editfiles problem - revisited - Still nobody having an idea what goes wrong?

[Sven Mueller]

Jamie Wilkinson [u] wrote on 06/09/2004 07:40:

> This one time, at band camp, Sven Mueller wrote:
>
> > In short my problem was that I _need_ to restart a program if I changed 
> > it's config file. But for various reasons, I have to avoid restarting 
> > it, if I didn't change it.
>
> I'm not sure what your problem is.  editfiles doesn't actually change the
> file if there are no changes to make, and doesn't define any of the
> DefineClasses either.
>
> If your editfiles script is convergent, then it will just work.

Hmm, looks as if you are right here. So even a
DeleteLinesMatching "root:.*" followed by "AppendIfNoSuchLine "root:abc" 
won't define anything on if root:abc already exists. Fine.

Now the only problem left is that cfengine doesn't behave as advertised 
with the ReplaceLinesMatchingField directive. Not behaving the way the 
manual suggests isn't good, even if there are Ways to work around that 
particular problem.

cu,
sven