I second this. Rdist handles this pretty nicely. Maybe the list of all files actually copied in a copy: run could go into big hash table that can be refernced as classes. AutoDefine helps but still leads to a lot of verbosity.
e.g: FilesCopied["/etc/ntp.conf"]:: ... Brian ====================================================================== On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:46:41PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if it is possible to refer to (sub)classes of copied > classes automatically, without having to define something_copied > explicitely for > each file. Instead of defining multiple copy actions for different parts > of managed files, with each defining its own class on success, I'd love > to be > able to define a single copy action that would take care of managing the > state of a directory tree, and use automatically defined classes > depending on what was actually copied, a la copied_etc_apt_sources_list. > > Is that possible with current cfengine, with AutoDefine for example? > Otherwise I'd have to resort to parsing verbose cfagent logs, which does > not sound like much fun. > > cheers, > dalibor topic > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- _____________________________________________________________________ / Brian C. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brian.bch.net \ | UNIX Specialist BCH Technical Services http://www.bch.net | _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine