Cfengine does write a summary of its classes to a file at every
iteration.
/var/cfengine/state/alclasses
M
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:43 +1000, Tim Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote:
>
> > I was thinking that it would be handy of cfengine had a 'module-mode'
> > whereby it would emit all of the true classes and macro definitions in
> > the same manner as a module. Particularly, it could be called as a
> > sub-feature of --parse.
> >
> > The idea would be that I have some other scripts that could query
> > cfengine for information about the host so as to not have to reimplement
> > the same checks, or to gather system information that has been encoded
> > as cfengine class definitions.
> >
> > It would also be nice if this output could optionally be directed to a
> > file.
>
> I've been thinking something similar, and I came up with a
> solution which I haven't implemented yet.
>
> 1. Every time you run cfengine, have it run a script that's something
> like the (untested) following, and pass in the all classes
> variable on the command line
> --------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ($_) = @ARGV;
>
> s/^CFALLCLASSES=\:*(.*?)\:*$/$1/;
>
> @classes = sort split /:/;
>
> putfile "/etc/cfengineclasses", join("\n", @classes);
> --------------------
> (yes, you'll need to write putfile, but it's easy).
>
> 2. You can now run cfengine in classes mode. You invoke it from the
> command line thusly:
> cat /etc/cfengineclasses
>
> :)
>
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