Re: Is AutoDefine/SingleCopy broken?

[Iain Morgan]

Hi Mark,

I can confirm from my own experience that SingleCopy does not appear to be
working in 2.1.13. 

On Wed Aug 24 00:56:52 2005, Mark Burgess wrote:
> 
> I cannot confirm this. This is a contributed functionality and it would
> take me some time to test it. I am willing to do this, but not before
> October. The best bet is to send this message to the help/bug list and
> hopefully the implementors will repspond.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:49 +0300, Riku Anttila wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We have used Cfengine for three years here at our department at Tampere 
> > University of Technology, for managing our servers and workstations in 
> > our mixed environment of Solaris, Gentoo and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 
> > I'm writing my MSc thesis on a related topic, and Cfengine will be 
> > mentioned in it. Overall, Cfengine has been a great tool for us.
> > 
> > However it seems to me that the two functions that could significantly 
> > simplify our configuration - AutoDefine and SingleCopy as described in 
> > reference manual sections 4.9.55 and 4.9.6 - simply do not work.
> > 
> > In fact, I remember trying them out when they were first introduced - in 
> > version 2.0.5 according to ChangeLog - and that I had some amount of 
> > success. But it seems to have been broken in all the subsequent versions 
> > that I have ran ever since. I have posted about this in a newsgroup at 
> > least once, but got no reply in the group. Months later I did receive an 
> > e-mail asking if I ever found a solution and confirming I'm not alone in 
> > having this problem.
> > 
> > Could you confirm that this functionality is indeed broken?
> 
> 
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Iain Morgan