Re: editfiles not working!?

[Alexander Mattausch]

Marcel Ritter schrieb:

> Hi there!
>
> I recently tried cfengine and I'm quite impressed with it's capabilities.
> But I ran into some trouble, when I tried to use the editfiles statement:
>
> (The following is part of my setup):
>
> control:
>   actionsequence = ( editfiles )
>
> editfiles:
>
>         { /etc/inetd.conf
>
>                HashCommentLinesMatching "^[^#]"
>         }
>
>
> And according to my understanding of the documentation, this should add
> "#" at the beginning of each line that does not already have a # in place.

Lines that are comments already are not commented again. You can comment 
all lines by using

HashCommentLinesMatching ".*"

Besides, for the matching-commands to work properly you should always 
put a ".*" at the beginning and the end of the regular expression (if 
you don't want to match the beginning and the end of the line, of course).

Regards,
Alex

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