NVM, sorry. I see I had included an extra "/" in my expression. Found my error only 2 minutes after sending out my inquiry, of course. :-(
-- Pat, professional botherer of email lists with inane questions On 9/30/13 4:25 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: > > Apologies for asking yet another novice question, but if I may, please? > > I'd like to construct an expression to match any iptables nodes with a > dport = <specific value>. Here's an example: > > augtool> print /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28] > /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28] = "Mayo-Firewall-INPUT" > /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28]/protocol = "tcp" > /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28]/match = "tcp" > /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28]/dport = "21" > /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28]/jump = "ACCEPT" > > So, I thought I'd just have to say somethine like > > match .../append[*]/*[dport = 'XXXX'] > > but I'm not finding what I expect: > > augtool> match /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[*]/*[dport = "21"] > (no matches) > augtool> match /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/*/*[dport = "21"] > (no matches) > augtool> match /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/*/*["dport" = "21"] > (no matches) > augtool> match /files/etc/sysconfig/iptables/table/append[28]/*["dport" > = "21"] > (no matches) > > > Guidance, please? (And yes, I have read over the examples in the "Path > Expressions" page on the hercules-team/augeas Wiki). > > > Apologies for the questions, > -- Pat > > On 9/30/13 3:48 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: >> >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
