RE: Editfiles on missing files

[Baker, Darryl]

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I think it is a great idea. I just wish I had the time to write the
patch.

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Darryl Baker
gedas USA, Inc.
Operational Services Business Unit
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+darryl.baker=gedas.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+darryl.baker=gedas.com@gnu.org]On
> Behalf Of Chip Seraphine
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:17 PM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Editfiles on missing files
> 
> 
> 
> I've got several situations where I am editing a file, but if 
> it doesn't exist 
> I'm okay with that.  To avoid errors, I currently have to do 
> a FileExists() 
> and then use the results of that to control the editfiles 
> block.  This is a 
> little tedious and does an extra stat... it would be Really 
> Great if we could 
> have a "MissingOK" option (kinda like the opposite of 
> AutoCreate) that 
> supresses the error message.
> 
> I tried writing a patch for this but it appears to be more 
> complicated than it 
> looks.  Any ambitious folk out there with better C skills 
> than I think this 
> is a good idea?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chip Seraphine
> Unix Administrator
> TradeLink, LLC
> 312-264-2048
> chip@trdlnk.com
> 
> 
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