Re: Defining classes in update.conf that are seen by cfagent.conf?

[Eric Dorland]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:55 -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Tim Nelson wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible to define a class in the update.conf that will be carried
> >> over to cfagent.conf? This doesn't seem to be the case right now.
> >> Specifically a define= on a copy command? Would autodefine work in this
> >> case, eg would an autodefine in cfagent.conf pick up on a copy that
> >> happened in the update phase?
> >
> >     I can't think of anything non-klugy (ie. make a file in update.conf, 
> > and check it in cfagent.conf), but have you considered moving that 
> > particular 
> > copy to your cfagent.conf (and use actionsequence to put it at the very 
> > start)?
> >
> 
> Huh.  Could you use SetState() to simply define a call that would carry
> over?
> 
> http//www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Anomalies.html#Persistent-alerts

How would I call SetState() in response to successful copy?

The file creating thing, although klugy, looks promising.

I've basically got a cf script that installs some firewall rules, and I
only want to reload the firewall rules if the script has actually
changed. So doing the copy within the script would be a bit too late,
since the script is already loaded.

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