On 07/01/2012 11:53, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Re: Using dist for random selections > Author: sauer > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24500,24505#msg-24505 > > You noticed that you have more than 10 outputs there, right? I wonder if > rand's value is remaining constant or being redefined in subsequent > iterations. So sometimes you're getting both heads and tails. :) > > Sounds like there might be a feature request asking for randomint to only be > "random" once per promise, and to remain constant through subsequent > iterations. Perhaps that can use the same logic I need in the > get_host_by_name dns lookup function so it'll return the same value every > time it's called. :) > >
Maybe you could use "select_class" to define a class from a list, based on the host name. It will be constant over all execution, so it's a bit more than what you request, but to random over nodes it would do the trick Nicolas _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
