RE: Ordering and cfengine 3 (was RE: Is this quirky forasimple copy, editfiles operation?)

[Moore, Joe]

Ed Brown wrote
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 15:33, Moore, Joe wrote:
> > If the class is not set, then the action doesn't happen (because the
> > admin has made it conditional on that class).
> > 
> > If the class IS set, perform the action and (on success?) clear the
> > class.  Every time the system is in the state "needs to 
> restart inetd",
> > the right thing to do is to run that shellcommand.
> 
> Maybe we're just not on the same page, it is late on a Friday 
> afternoon
> after all, but isn't this just the behavior of cfengine without the
> saved state?  

Yes, it is the same.

The difference is that cfengine would "remember" that it hadn't gotten
around to restarting inetd in the last invocation, so the system is
still in that state.

--Joe