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Re: cfengine 2.1.7snapshot weirdness with multiple methods
From: |
Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: cfengine 2.1.7snapshot weirdness with multiple methods |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:07:36 +0200 (MEST) |
This sounds very odd -- hard to believe. Are you sure that
there is not some other explanation for the behaviour?
e.g. locks or classes undefined. What about the very latest
snapshot?
M
On 25 Jun, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Hi.
>
> While setting up our new cfengine-based Configuration management, we
> noticed a weirdness with regards to methods. This is an excerpt from our
> configuration file. The actual method definition has no influence on the
> behaviour observed.
>
> --------------- begin config file excerpt -----------------------
> methods:
>
> InstallLeososPackage(sendmail-8.12.11.tbz2,$(master_cfinput),$(policyhost))
>
> action=InstallLeososPackage.conf
> returnvars=null
> returnclasses=null
> server=localhost
>
>
> InstallLeososPackage(cyrus-sasl-2.1.15.tbz2,$(master_cfinput),$(policyhost))
>
> action=InstallLeososPackage.conf
> returnvars=null
> returnclasses=null
> server=localhost
> --------------- begin config file excerpt -----------------------
>
> This is about the only way it works for us. If we remove the empty lines
> after the method call (InstallLeososPackage), cfengine only executes the
> first method definition. We once had it execute two of three methods
> without the empty lines after the call, but it never executed all
> methods when the empty lines were missing.
> The variables master_cfinput and policyhost are, of course defined at
> that point (in the master cf_agent.conf where this config is imported).
>
> Anyone on here who also observed this behaviour? IMHO this should be
> considered a bug in the config parser, but I am not sure wether there
> might be some reasoning behind this behaviour. I guess not.
>
> cu,
> Sven
>
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