Is AutoDefine/SingleCopy broken?

[Mark Burgess]

I cannot confirm this. This is a contributed functionality and it would
take me some time to test it. I am willing to do this, but not before
October. The best bet is to send this message to the help/bug list and
hopefully the implementors will repspond.

Mark

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:49 +0300, Riku Anttila wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have used Cfengine for three years here at our department at Tampere 
> University of Technology, for managing our servers and workstations in 
> our mixed environment of Solaris, Gentoo and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 
> I'm writing my MSc thesis on a related topic, and Cfengine will be 
> mentioned in it. Overall, Cfengine has been a great tool for us.
> 
> However it seems to me that the two functions that could significantly 
> simplify our configuration - AutoDefine and SingleCopy as described in 
> reference manual sections 4.9.55 and 4.9.6 - simply do not work.
> 
> In fact, I remember trying them out when they were first introduced - in 
> version 2.0.5 according to ChangeLog - and that I had some amount of 
> success. But it seems to have been broken in all the subsequent versions 
> that I have ran ever since. I have posted about this in a newsgroup at 
> least once, but got no reply in the group. Months later I did receive an 
> e-mail asking if I ever found a solution and confirming I'm not alone in 
> having this problem.
> 
> Could you confirm that this functionality is indeed broken?