Re: Structuring the cfagent for daily tasks

[Mark . Burgess]

On 17 Apr, Adrian Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> "Benny" == Benny Kjellgren <benny.kjellgren@genuity.se> writes:
> 
>     Benny> Hello.  I have used the following way to perform daily
>     Benny> tasks (cfagent.conf) :
> 
>     Benny> import: any:: cf.groups cf.site Hr00:: cf.site_daily
> 
>     Benny> I like this idea that cfagent do not parse daily tasks
>     Benny> every time cfagent runs. But sometime I want to force a
>     Benny> machine to do daily tasks (not Hr00).
> 
>     Benny> There is many ways to do this (I think) : -
>     Benny> "Hr00|myclass_that_force::" Some file that is touched (or
>     Benny> not) - some options to cfagent - design cf.site_daily
>     Benny> autonomous and do 'cfagent -f cf.site_daily'
> 
>     Benny> Q: How to make daily tasks that can be forced ? And still
>     Benny> have a nice structure.
> 
> -D Hr00 (?)
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian
> 

Yes, you are both on the right track. I think that

Hr00|myclass_that_forces::

  action

and cfagent -D myclass_that_forces is more elegant than forcing the time Hr00
(though this is possible). Forcing the time might have other consequences.

Mark

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