Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: filecopy, transform with grep. Author: bbomgardner Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,22985,23014#msg-23014
To answer your question: At a high level the difference between what you are trying to do and the example in the guide is that you want cfengine to be the program that edits /path/to/resultfile. You intend for it not only to read in data but also to write it. In the postfix example, Cfengine is trusting that /usr/sbin/postalias is going to do all of the editing (read in /etc/postfix/alias and update /etc/postfix/alias.cdb). So because cfengine already has a good mechanism for editing files that is entirely within its control (although yes, it is "lengthy"!), changing the transformer promise to also have the ability to edit files may not make a lot of sense. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
