Re: a more specific question

[paul beard]

On Feb 7, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Ed Brown wrote:

> >  What seems to be happening is that if I specify a class that  
> > isn't in
> > my cfengine binary's understanding, the script exits without doing
> > anything. For instance, if I want permissions changed on a file in  
> > the
> > freebsd class and only use that class in cfagent.conf, it works. If I
> > add a stanza for linux systems, the freebsd changes don't get made.
>
> Your configuration files and cfagent output (either verbose or debug
> modes) are the key to getting useful feedback, else you get guesses or
> questions for more info.

I ran the commands again with the -k flag to ignore locks and it  
worked. Altered the files permissions, ran cfagent w/o the -k and it  
worked again.

To repeat an action with the expectation of a different result is  
alleged to be insanity but what about when it works? ;-)

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