Hi. I just tested the latest patch release and this works fine, as long as you are careful to use AddInstallable:
control: AddInstallable = ( alertX ) shellcommands: alertX:: "/bin/echo XXXXXXXXXXXX" any:: "/bin/echo HELO" define=alertX Try the latest patch release from www.cfengine.org, developer pages. M On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 11:07 -0400, Viraj Alankar wrote: > Hello, > > I read this in the reference manual: > > "In many cases, cfagent will be able to complete all its work in a > single pass of the actionsequence. However, in complex configurations, > it is hard to resolve all of the ordering dependencies automatically > in a single pass. Cfagent keeps track both of all actions that have > been performed and of those that might still need to be performed > (given that some actions depend on the later outcomes of others). If > there is a possibility that an action ordering dilemma might occur, it > runs a second pass of the actionsequence to more quickly resolve the > dependency (avoiding the wait for next scheduled run). No actions are > performed twice however, since the agent checks off actions that have > already been performed to avoid unnecessary duplication." > > But I'm having trouble getting multiple passes to work. Let's say my > cfagent.conf looks like: > > control: > actionsequence = ( shellcommands tidy ) > > import: > any:: > cleanup.cf > > And in cleanup.cf: > > tidy: > /tmp pattern=blah age=0 define=dothis > > shellcommands: > dothis:: > "/bin/echo whatever" > > My shellcommands do not get executed. If I change the actionsequence to: > > actionsequence = ( tidy shellcommands ) > > It works fine. However, when having lots of configuration files, it > may not be as clear as above that shellcommands must come after tidy. > In fact I may have another configuration that requires tidy to come > after shellcommands in a similar situation. So I thought cfengine > would realize that in the first case shellcommands would need to go > through a second pass. Is this a wrong assumption? If so, what > actually causes a second pass to occur? I'm confused on this. > > I tried also using AddInstallable = ( testblah) but it did not help. > > Another example is say in my shellcommands I define something that is > itself another shellcommand that was defined previously. How do I get > that to work? > > Thanks, > > Viraj. > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
