Re: Variables in editfiles, setline

[Mark . Burgess]

Seems to work for me....maybe $(MINUTE) is not actually defined?

M


On 21 Jun, Rune Mossige wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to use a variable in an editfiles section, but using setline 
> apparently does not allow variables...
> 
> I want to appent a crontab entry, where the minute field is calculated 
> earlier in a module. I only want to append this crontab entry if a 
> similar entry does not exist....I have tried:
> 
> editfiles:
>   { /etc/crontab
>       SetLine "$(MINUTE) 4,5,8,9,12,13,16,17 * * * root 
> /gecoapp/share/rsync_computenodes""
>       AppendIfNoLineMatching ".*rsync_computenodes.*"
>     }
> 
> but then cfengine complains with:
> Wildcards cannot be used in this context: 
> cfengine:GST0H5::Execution terminated after parsing due to errors in 
> program
> 
> How can I get around this? I am using 2.0.1.
> 
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