Re: Mac OS X Jaguar notes and questions

[Dave Botsch]

In article <dwb7-D59B49.01091727052003@syrcnyrdrs-02-ge0.nyroc.rr.com>,
 Dave Botsch <dwb7@ccmr.cornell.edu> wrote:
Let's try again.

Using cfengine 2.0.1, not 1.2 :)


> Hi, Folks.
> 
> Here at CCMR, we are using cfengine to do a large part of keeping our 
> Macintosh 10.2 computers up to date with various things.
> 
> At the moment, in concert with our linux computers, we are running 
> cfengine 1.2
> 
> For the most part it works great (it just compiled and made with out any 
> tinkering around, which was also great).
> 
> Two issues:
> 
> 1. defining a class with the Define=classname does not seem to work 
> under OS X. For whatever reason, cfengine seems to just be ignoring 
> these define statements and not defining classes when doing something 
> like copying a new config file, etc.
> 
> example:
> 
>         AddInstallable = ( ReloadCups )
> 
> (snip)
> 
>         $(masterfiles)/$(sys)/etc/cups/printers.conf 
> dest=/etc/cups/printers.conf type=sum mode=0655 owner=daemon group=admin 
> define=ReloadCups
>         $(masterfiles)/$(sys)/etc/cups/ppd dest=/etc/cups/ppd type=sum 
> mode=0755 owner=daemon group=admin recurse=inf define=ReloadCups
> 
> (snip)
> 
>        ReloadCups::
>             "/bin/touch /tmp/test.cups"
> 
> as an example of what to try when the real script there fails to 
> execute. Nothing is ever touched. Maybe this has been fixed in a later 
> version? Maybe I am missing something? Maybe it is a bug that still 
> exists?
> 
> 2. Resource forks
> 
> With non-resouce fork filesystems or files that don't require the 
> resource forks, we can do like above with the printers.conf file. But 
> what about files that have resource forks? Can we do something other 
> than just recopying them using /Developer/Tools/CpMac every time 
> cfengine runs?
> 
> 
> Thanks!!
> -Dave Botsch
> CCMR Computing Facility