Fantastic, and thank you! This did indeed do the trick. :-) insert append before "/files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[. = 'Mayo-Firewall-INPUT'][1]"
Thank you muchly for your patience with my novice questions. :-) -- Pat On 9/30/13 3:31 PM, Raphaël Pinson wrote: > Hi Pat, > > > You need to select the first node matching your expression, by filtering > a second time: > > insert append before "/files/etc/sysconfig/ > iptables/table/append[position(. = > 'Mayo-Firewall-INPUT')][1]" > > > Regards, > > Raphaël > > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Patrick Spinler > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Okay, so I have a structure like this: > > augtool> ls "/files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/" > chain[1]/ = INPUT > chain[2]/ = FORWARD > chain[3]/ = OUTPUT > chain[4]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > append[1]/ = INPUT > append[2]/ = INPUT > append[3]/ = INPUT > append[4]/ = INPUT > append[5]/ = INPUT > append[6]/ = INPUT > append[7]/ = FORWARD > append[8]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > append[9]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > append[10]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > (...snip...) > append[27]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > append[28]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > append[29]/ = Mayo-Firewall-INPUT > > I'd like to insert a new node immediately before the first > > append[. = 'Mayo-Firewall-INPUT'] > > node, that is, in this case, before append[8]. However, that position > in the tree, [8], is obviously not constant. > > How might I do this? > > I've tried expressions like this: > > augtool> insert append before > "/files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[. = 'Mayo-Firewall-INPUT']" > error: Too many matches for path expression > > and expressions involving [position(...)], like this > > augtool> insert append before > "/files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[position(. = > 'Mayo-Firewall-INPUT')]" > error: Invalid path expression > > > which obviously both fail. Thoughts? > > Thanks, > -- Pat > > _______________________________________________ > augeas-devel mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel > > > > > -- > Raphaël Pinson > Infrastructure Developer & Trainer > +33 479 26 57 93 > +33 781 90 00 79 > > Camptocamp France > Savoie Technolac > BP 352 > 48, avenue du Lac du Bourget > 73372 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex > www.camptocamp.com <http://www.camptocamp.com> _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
