Re: Use of editfile to support templated configuration files

[Sami J. Mäkinen]

Eric Sorenson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 wbmccarty@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Alternatively, I'd like to somehow be able to specify a hierarchy of
> > host groups, and have cfengine choose the file at the lowest level for
> > which a  version of the file exists. This would be pretty easily done
> > using an external module. But, I'd prefer to avoid external modules for
> > now and I don't see how to manage such a hierarchy concisely using
> > cfengine scripts.
>
>
> I wrote up the way I accomplish this just the other day, it does precisely
> what you describe without external modules.
>
>      http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Singlecopy_Nirvana
>
> Please let me know if the documentation is confusing or unclear, either
> via email or on the 'discussion' link on the wiki page itself.

I have developed an external script framework for customizing
certain files on hosts. I just documented this approach in
the discussion section of your document, here:

http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Talk:Singlecopy_Nirvana

I really appreciate any comments on this.

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