Re: a more specific question

[Tim Nelson]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, paul beard wrote:

> 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.

	I think Ed's point is that if we only have part of your config, we 
can't diagnose problems in the bits that you withhold.

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

        Well, my boss always says that time is a variable :).

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