On 11/7/05, Mark Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> How would you do it is perl? With a regular expression?
> If the problem is that you don't really know what you are looking for,
> or what the result should look like, then it seems to me that trying to
> do it in perl will not help you either. Perhaps this is where the
> problem lies...
I would do the following:
perl -pi -e 's/(\s+\/tmp.*),noexec/$1/' /etc/fstab
The main issue is I do not know what the mount device may be. I just
know the mount point is /tmp and if it has noexec I would like to
remove it.
Viraj.
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:07 -0500, Viraj Alankar wrote:
> > Thanks. So I guess there is no way if I don't know what the exact line
> > will look like? Basically I could do a 'perl -pie' but was hoping I
> > could do it within cfengine.
> >
> > Viraj.
> >
> > On 11/6/05, Brendan Strejcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Viraj Alankar wrote:
> > >
> > > > ...
> > > > /dev/sda2 /tmp ext3
> > > > defaults,nosuid,nodev,noexec 1 2
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > I would like to remove ',noexec' from this line only. I thought of
> > > > using LocateLineMatching to find the line, but am not sure how to do
> > > > the replacement.
> > >
> > > Here is a very careful way to do it, though it requires that you know
> > > the entire form of the line you want to end up with.
> > >
> > > control:
> > > fstab_line = ( "/dev/sda2 /tmp ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev 1 2" )
> > >
> > > editfiles:
> > > { /etc/fstab
> > > AppendIfNoSuchLine "${fstab_line}"
> > > ResetSearch "1"
> > > LocateLineMatching "^/dev/sda2.*$"
> > > BeginGroupIfNoMatch "^${fstab_line}$"
> > > ReplaceLineWith "${fstab_line}"
> > > EndGroup
> > > DeleteLinesAfterThisMatching "^/dev/sda2.*$"
> > > CatchAbort
> > > }
> >
> >
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