Hi Daniel, thank you for pointing out some of these deficiencies.
Daniel Holth wrote: > Hi! I used cfengine successfully a decade ago. Now I'm trying to use it > again. > > I'm trying to get started with cfengine3 using the example config files. > I noticed a few elements from cfengine_stdlib.cf > <http://cfengine_stdlib.cf> are redefined in site.cf <http://site.cf>, > update.cf <http://update.cf>, and library.cf <http://library.cf>. I was > surprised that the example configuration files don't work with the > standard library. > > > The stdlib's body action immediate { ifelapsed => "0"; } but update.cf > <http://update.cf>'s version has { ifelapsed => "1"; }. Is there any > harm in using "0" instead of "1"? Should one of them be renamed to > almost_immediate? > > > In the documentation, process_select is sometimes documented as > select_process. Are both valid? > > > In the documentation, "left hand side" is misspelled "left hand size". > > > When using process_select, is it possible to pass the regex process > selector (the leftmost string) to the process_select body? I wanted to > match named processes only if they were owned by a particular owner. I > wound up with: > > processes: > ".*" process_select => process_owner("foobar .*", "root"); > > ... > > body process_select process_owner(command, owner) { > command => "$(command)"; > process_owner => { "$(owner)" }; > process_result => "!(command.process_owner)"; > } > > but I wanted something like: > > processes: > "foobar .*" process_select => process_owner("$(lhs)", "root"); > I think what you want here is to pass a list? i.e. pass @(bundle.lhs) not $(lhs), because the latter would iterate the whole promise over the list leading to mulitple searches. -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
