Re: nested groups?

[Tim Nelson]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, martin f krafft wrote:

> I am trying this:
>
> editfiles:
>  SSHD_RHOSTAUTH::
>    { ${target}/etc/ssh/ssh_config
>      BeginGroupIfNoSuchLine "Host node?? | node??.cluster.ailab.ch"
>        Append "Host node?? | node??.cluster.ailab.ch"
>        Append "  HostbasedAuthentication yes"
>        Append "  StrictHostKeyChecking no"
>        Append "  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null"
>        BeginGroupIfDefined SSHD_XFORWARDING

        You may need quotes around the class here.

>          Append "  ForwardX11 yes"
>        EndGroup
>      EndGroup
>    }
>
> but it's not working:
>
> cf:node24:NODE/S50ssh:19: EndGroup without Begin
> cf:node24:NODE/S50ssh:20: Editfiles Begin/End mismatch before or at line
>
> Apparently, cfengine does not support nested groups, and also has
> not way to only BeginGroup if two conditions hold.

        Nested groups work for me.

> How else can I achieve what I am trying?

> Also, what's the way to check for presence of multiple consecutive
> lines?

	Don't :).  I know this isn't the answer that you wanted, but I 
always use something else if possible, if multiple lines are involved 
(usually my lovely perl templating system :) ).


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