Atom Powers wrote:
In the replies I have recieved I am noticing that everyone has a main.cf. It a main.cf required or is it just a matter of convenience? Is it possible to get away with just importing groups.cf
My cfagent.conf file is very bare. Just a control section and a list of groups and imports. This way I have all my importing and class in one place and I don't have to worry about recursive imports.
I have something like this;
groups: seattle_network = ( IPRange(192.168.0.0/23) ) webservers = ( www0 www1 www2 )
import: any:: main.cf
seattle_network:: seattle.cf
webservers:: wwwsvr.cf
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Atom Powers Systems Administrator Pyramid Breweries Inc. 206.682.8322 x251 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward F. Brown Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:12 PM To: Dustin Sorge Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org Subject: Re: importing files
I currently have a file (groups.cf) which defines a number of groups. I want to be able to import this file into my cfagent.conf file (as well as others). Since the groups can change I would rather make the changes in one file and have it propagate to the others instead of going through each file individually and modifying the groups. What would the syntax be for importing this groups.cf file and referencing the groups contained in it in my .conf files? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Dustin,
Cfengine configuration files aren't really "imported into" other configuration files. Instead, they are "imported", or parsed and acted on, by a running instance of cfagent on a given machine. groups.cf is typically one of a couple of configuration files that every host is going to want to "import" or read, so often (but not necessarily) the import statement for it is in cfagent.conf. So in cfagent.conf, you might do this:
import: groups.cf main.cf
Now you can use the groups (aka, classes) defined in groups.cf in main.cf, or any subsequently imported files. You can even use them in cfagent.conf, though you may need to list them in an "AddInstallables" variable declared in a 'control:' section there. So in main.cf, you might have:
import: WebServer:: webserver.cf
-Ed
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import:
any::
groups.cfthanks everyone for the helpful suggestions, they have been great
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