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Editfiles error messages
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Chip Seraphine |
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Editfiles error messages |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:00:22 -0500 |
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When I screw up in editfiles, I get messages like this:
cuffs: File formats did not completely match in ReplaceLinesMatchingField
cuffs: while editing /var/cfengine/proxy/crontab.cfadmin
If I've made a modest amount of edits recently, this is easy to track
down. Unfortunately, after a wholesale rewrite of a file this can be a
real bear. Can we get these messages to include some handy stuff like
what config file and line number is throwing the error? Rerunning
cfagent in heightened verbosity isn't always a good option (I can't run
cfagent on certain production machines at certain times of the day), so
it would be useful to get more info from the initial error message. I
could just come in in the morning, read the errors, and fix 'em up....
Looking in item-ext.c (where this error is from), I don't really see how
this could be easily done without adding a bunch of globals and other
such badness. Any C wizards out there with a good idea on how to
improve these messages?
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Chip Seraphine
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