Re: run cfengine with params

[Mark . Burgess]

On  9 Nov, Dave Stern wrote:
> We would like cfengine to run in two different formats yet use the same 
> config file. Is this possible?
> 
> Specifically, I'd like an interactive script to use a different value 
> for SplayTime which is defined in control in the config file.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like a command line parameter like:
> cfengine -f ... -DsPlayTime=1
>     for interactive   and
> cfengine -f ... -Dsplaytime=60
>     for cron
> 
> But if this can only be done by defining a class from the command line 
> and having some class stanza that changes splaytime, that would be ok 
> too (just work coding to set). If so, could someone show an example?
> 
> TIA
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control:

 run_1::

 SplayTime = ( 1 )

 run_60::

 SplayTime = ( 60 )



The you do

 cfagent -Drun_1
 cfagent -Drun_60

or

  cfrun -- -- run_1
etc

M

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