Re: run cfengine with params

[Christian Pearce]

Why don't you run it with a -q?

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:39, Will Lowe wrote:
> I do this with environment variables.  The cron job that runs cfengine
> looks like this:
> 
> 30 * * * *     root  RUNNING_FROM_CRON=YES /usr/sbin/cfexecd -F
> 
> And then in the configs I have:
> 
> groups:
> 
>     splay      = ( IsDefined(RUNNING_FROM_CRON) )
> 
> control:
>     splay::
>         SplayTime = ( 55 )
> 
> 
> ... so when it's run by hand, RUNNING_FROM_CRON is unset, the "splay"
> class isn't defined, and no splaying happens.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:43:39PM -0500, Dave Stern wrote:
> > We would like cfengine to run in two different formats yet use the same 
> > config file. Is this possible?
> > 
> > Specifically, I'd like an interactive script to use a different value 
> > for SplayTime which is defined in control in the config file.
> > 
> > Ideally, I'd like a command line parameter like:
> > cfengine -f ... -DsPlayTime=1
> >    for interactive   and
> > cfengine -f ... -Dsplaytime=60
> >    for cron
> > 
> > But if this can only be done by defining a class from the command line 
> > and having some class stanza that changes splaytime, that would be ok 
> > too (just work coding to set). If so, could someone show an example?
> > 
> > TIA
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Help-cfengine@gnu.org
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