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Re: editfiles problem - revisited - Still nobody having an idea what goe


From: Chip Seraphine
Subject: Re: editfiles problem - revisited - Still nobody having an idea what goes wrong?
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:39:50 -0500
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On Monday 06 September 2004 05:51, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Jamie Wilkinson [u] wrote on 06/09/2004 07:40:
> > 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.

I've had similar problems since 2.1.0 when editing crontabs; the 
ReplaceLinesMatchingField simply refuses to fire.   I ended up just deleting 
the matching lines and then appending them; the only problem is that this is 
only convergent if nobody else ever edits the file :-)  




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