On 11/6/05, Mark Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 12:55 -0500, Viraj Alankar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a certain task that I'd like to do but not sure what the best > > way to do it with cfengine. Any advice appreciated. > > > > Let's say I want have a file /etc/httpd/conf.d/log_sql.conf that looks > > like the following on a couple of servers: > > > > LoadModule log_sql_module modules/mod_log_sql.so > > LoadModule log_sql_mysql_module modules/mod_log_sql_mysql.so > > LogSQLLoginInfo mysql://my:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/apachelogs > > LogSQLCreateTables on > > LogSQLMassVirtualHosting On > > LogSQLTransferLogFormat AabHhMmRrSsTUuv > > LogSQLMachineID $(short_hostname) > > > > Now short_hostname should be replaced with a variable that I define: > > > > short_hostname = ( ExecResult(/bin/hostname -s) ) > > As Brendan said, you don't need to do this. Use $(host) from cfagent.
> You don't have to copy by checksum, you can copy by date (the default), > in which case there will be no problem with editing the file afterwards. > In that case you example already looks fine. Thanks, I see there are many ways to do this and decided on the copy by date with an appropriate editfiles just for the needed line. That seems the simplest. I also see that the EmptyEntireFilePlease option would work. Regarding short_hostname, on my system '/bin/hostname' returns the FQDN. If I try using $(host), I just get the FQDN. Is that normal? That's why I'm using my own variable. > If the file contains $(macro) like instances already, you could simply > ask cfagent to expand them using "ExpandVariables". Alernatively you > could use a I'm a little confused on how to use template files. Since the template file is on a server, how do I get it part of the editfiles? I'm only familiar with using 'server=' in copy:. Do I need to copy the file over first? If so, how do I make sure to do that before an edit (and if possible, to avoid worrying about this ordering)? Viraj. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
