RE: Copy+editfiles

[Martin, Jason H]

Won't editfiles change the mtime of the destination, this causing CFE to
recopy the source over again? Or, does CFE not recopy if the destination
is 'newer' then the source?

Thanks,
-Jason Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Burgess [mailto:mark@iu.hio.no] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:25 AM
To: Martin, Jason H
Cc: Mark Burgess; help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Copy+editfiles



The file will not be recopied on every run if you use copy by mtime, 
only when the source file is modified. So it will only be momentarily
wrong on the first run.

M

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:20 -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> The only problems I see with that is that myfile's contents will 
> temporarily be 'wrong' every run (the space between the copy and 
> edit), and it would be difficult to key an action off of the change of

> myfile (ie, restart the application) as it is changing every 30 
> minutes. However, it is simpler then a huge editfiles stanza.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Jason Martin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.org] On 
> Behalf Of Mark Burgess
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:54 AM
> To: Jason Martin
> Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Copy+editfiles
> 
> 
> 
> Of course. Make a masterfile template and copy the file
> based on date. Use something like XXX for the hostname,
> 
> copy:
> 
>   mysourcefile dest=myfile define=copied
> 
> editfiles:
> 
>   copied::
> 
>     { myfile
>     ReplaceAll "XXX" With "$(host)"
>     }
> 
> M
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:31 -0700, Jason Martin wrote:
> > I've got a 500 line file that should be the same on all my hosts, 
> > save
> 
> > that one of the lines need to be customized to the hostname. Does
> > anyone have any tips on how to do this? I'd rather not enter a 
> > 500-line editfiles stanza if possible. Is there any way to do a 
> > copy+editfiles action?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > -Jason Martin _______________________________________________
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