Hi, pettai. I saw your question earlier, is 3.0.2 too old. The forum and list are gatewayed; they are two sides of the same coin. Why don't you try 3.1.4; if that makes your problem go away, then yes, 3.0.2 is too old. =)
Generally speaking, Cfengine 3 is under active development so if you're just starting out, I'd strongly recommend the latest stable version, even if you have to build it from source (which shouldn't be hard on Ubuntu, as I recall from your earlier post?) If you find userexists() does not work on NetBSD under cfengine 3.1.4, could you please open a bug at http://bug.cfengine.com ? Best, -at On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:50 AM, <no-re...@cfengine.com> wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: 3.0.2 too old? > Author: pettai > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20392,20392#msg-20392 > > I posted this on the mailing list, but it seems that the forum is more active, > anyway, here it goes... > > I'm trying to do a script for provisioning/de-provisioning unix user accounts. > It works sometimes, and sometimes not. It feels like an intermittent error, > but I've changed the script a bit to make the logic better, but now it's > probably broken. > I don't understand why some things happen and why some things won't happen > (even if they are suppose to, at least according to my understanding of > cfengine's logic) > > (half-working?) example code: > > site.cf: > > > bundle agent main > { > vars: > > "uids" slist => { "user2", "user3", "user5" }; > "disabled_uids" slist => { "user1", "user4" }; > > methods: > > "any" usebundle => add_uids; > "any" usebundle => disable_uids; > > } > > > user.cf: > > > bundle agent add_uids > { > vars: > "users" slist => { @(g.uids) }; > > classes: > "have_user" expression => userexists("$(users)"); > > commands: > !have_user:: > "/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/$(users) -m -c \"CF_PROVISIONED\" -g users > $(users)"; > > } > > bundle agent disable_uids > { > vars: > "users" slist => { @(g.disabled_uids) }; > > netbsd:: > "lockopts" string => "-C yes -s /sbin/nologin"; > > linux:: > "lockopts" string => "-L -s /usr/sbin/nologin"; > > classes: > "have_user" expression => userexists("$(users)"); > > commands: > have_user:: > "/usr/sbin/usermod $(lockopts) -c \"CF_DISABLED\" $(users)"; > > } > > > Is there something wrong with this logic? > Any hints are mostly welcome! > > I also guess userexists("$(users)"); doesn't work as expected on NetBSD, > because no users where added on that machine after I added this class. > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
