Thanks. So I guess there is no way if I don't know what the exact line will look like? Basically I could do a 'perl -pie' but was hoping I could do it within cfengine.
Viraj. On 11/6/05, Brendan Strejcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Viraj Alankar wrote: > > > ... > > /dev/sda2 /tmp ext3 > > defaults,nosuid,nodev,noexec 1 2 > > ... > > > > I would like to remove ',noexec' from this line only. I thought of > > using LocateLineMatching to find the line, but am not sure how to do > > the replacement. > > Here is a very careful way to do it, though it requires that you know > the entire form of the line you want to end up with. > > control: > fstab_line = ( "/dev/sda2 /tmp ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev 1 2" ) > > editfiles: > { /etc/fstab > AppendIfNoSuchLine "${fstab_line}" > ResetSearch "1" > LocateLineMatching "^/dev/sda2.*$" > BeginGroupIfNoMatch "^${fstab_line}$" > ReplaceLineWith "${fstab_line}" > EndGroup > DeleteLinesAfterThisMatching "^/dev/sda2.*$" > CatchAbort > } _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine