Re: Number of files in a directory?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Tim Nelson wrote:

> > > ----BEGIN SNIP
> > > classes:
> > >         # See if we're overlimt
> > >         MailqueOverLimit = ( ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c "expr `ls
> > >         /var/spool/mqueue/ | grep q.*| wc -l`  \> 12 > /dev/null") )
>
> 	Couldn't you use the control section to set a variable to the number 
> of whatevers (files), and then set the class based on that?  It'd also allow 
> you to use the variable in the alerts to say how many there are.

Yah, but control: gets evaluated before classes (true)?  How does one do
this without running classes: twice?  I'm still a newbie, care to share an
example of how to do this?

Most of the time cfengine is easy, but sometimes I just think like it's
p{erl,php,dksh} :)

> 	Hmm.  If I were doing it, I'd make a shell script.  Of course, that 
> would mean that alerts wouldn't work.  I might also try a cfengine method.

Hmm.. I'm trying to reduce the scripties.  We have one that does this now,
in fact we have like 6 :)

Thanks!

-n
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