There's nothing wrong with that stanza, although I'd suggest creating some class to determine whether the copy should be attempted.
-Jason Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > org] On Behalf Of John SJ Anderson > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:27 AM > To: help-cfengine@gnu.org > Subject: file distribution bug? > > > > I have a possible file distribution bug, I think. CfEngine version > 2.0.7p3, running in a Slackware-based Linux environment, > distributing > files from a single master to around 600 hosts. > > I have one particular file (a load balancer config file) that has a > very odd distribution pattern: it may or may not be present > on a host, > but if it is present, it's going to be different than any other host > in the network. > > Rather than spell out an individual copy stanza for each host, I did > this: > > any:: > $(master)/path/to/file/$(host) > dest=/path/to/file > type=checksum > backup=true > server=$(policyhost) > > And then I have the files for the individual hosts in the > appropriate > directory named 'host1', 'host2', etc. If a host isn't supposed to > have this file, there's no file in the appropriate directory. > > This has been working out fine -- there are a lot of warnings > generated in the log, when cfserv tries to stat() a file > that doesn't > exist, but I can live with that. However, there have been a > couple of > instances recently where a host that shouldn't get a file > _has_ ended > up with a file: one that contains part of a cfengine error message > (the "can't resolve name" one) followed by a chunk of > binary garbage. > > Clearly, my first step is to upgrade the clients and the server to a > more recent CfEngine release -- recommendations on an appropriately > stable version are welcome. Assuming that doesn't fix the > problem, how > should I go about troubleshooting this? Is this because of > the idiom I > used to write the copy stanza? Is there a better way to do > that (other > than spelling out individual stanzas for each host?) > > Thanks for any help. > > cheers, > john. > -- > John S J Anderson, Ph.D. [ Contractor ] +1.301.402.7499 > Chief Penguin Herder & Linux Team Lead, Systems Group, > NCBI/NLM/NIH I think you are asking the wrong question here. > Mark Jason Dominus's Good Advice #11931 > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-> cfengine > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
