Re: --parse-only issues

[Lance Albertson]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 13:01 -0700, Edward F. Brown wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I was trying to find a way to check the syntax if our cfengine files
> > before we commit them in cvs. So far, it appears that --parse-only only
> > works on files that are in /var/cfengine. Is there a way to override
> > this and specific a location on the fly? I tried looking through the
> > docs, but I just didn't see anything talking about it.
> 
> 
> '-f' allows you to specify a file name.  You need to be explicit about the
> path to the file, or it defaults to inputs, as you noted.  I.e.,
> './filename', rather than just 'filename'.
> 
> Here's a script I run on cvs commit of files in the inputs directory:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>  #!/bin/sh
> 
> # cfsyn_check: called by cvs commitinfo trigger (/var/CVS/CVSROOT/commitinfo)
> #              return code determines whether commit is allowed
> #              only run on files ending in '.cf'
> 
> for i in "$@"
> do
>         if echo "$i" |grep -q "\.cf"
>         then
>                 sudo /usr/sbin/cfagent -pf ./$i
>                 if [ $? -ne 0 ]
>                 then
>                         exit 1
>                 fi
>         fi
> done
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This is the commitinfo trigger (.../CVSROOT/commitinfo):
> 
> # Check cfengine syntax before allowing commit
> inputs          /usr/local/sbin/cfsyn_check %s
> 
> hope this helps,
> Ed

Thanks! Thats exactly what I was looking for. The only thing I noticed
is that I need to set CFINPUTS to the directory where these files are at
otherwise it wants to check the HOME directory. 

Cheers!
-- 
Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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