Re: Use of editfile to support templated configuration files

[Eric Sorenson]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 wbmccarty@gmail.com wrote:

> Alternatively, I'd like to somehow be able to specify a hierarchy of
> host groups, and have cfengine choose the file at the lowest level for
> which a  version of the file exists. This would be pretty easily done
> using an external module. But, I'd prefer to avoid external modules for
> now and I don't see how to manage such a hierarchy concisely using
> cfengine scripts.

I wrote up the way I accomplish this just the other day, it does precisely
what you describe without external modules.

     http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Singlecopy_Nirvana

Please let me know if the documentation is confusing or unclear, either
via email or on the 'discussion' link on the wiki page itself.

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