Re: touble importing groups file

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Dustin Sorge wrote:

> I am trying to import a file called cf.groups which contains all of my group 
> class definitions.  I am also importing a cf.main file (which imports fine). 
> When I put the groups block in the cfagent.conf file it finds the class 
> properly and works:
>
> ##########################################################################
> # BEGIN PARSING /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf
> ##########################################################################
>
> HandleClass(any)
> Found 0 variables in (cf.main)
> ExpandVarstring(cf.main)
> Appending [cf.main]
> ExpandVarstring(dell0)
> AddClassToHeap(advsys_node)
> Appending [advsys_node]
> HandleClass(advsys_node)
> ....
> ....
>
> When I setup my cfagent.conf to look like this:
>
> import:
>   any::
>      cf.main
>      cf.groups

        Not sure what you're trying to achieve here, but try this:

import:
        any::
                cf.groups
                cf.main

> ....
> ....
>
> It doesn't seem to work:
> ##########################################################################
> # BEGIN PARSING /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf
> ##########################################################################
>
> HandleClass(any)
> Found 0 variables in (cf.main)
> ExpandVarstring(cf.main)
> Appending [cf.main]
> Found 0 variables in (cf.groups)
> ExpandVarstring(cf.groups)
> Appending [cf.groups]
> HandleClass(advsys_node)
> ....
> ....
>
> any suggestions would be very helpful.

        What's the "it" that you expect to see working?

	Btw, the problems people usually have with "import" can usually be 
resolved by reading the "import" section of the cfengine reference, 
especially the bit which reads "Note that, if you define variables in an 
imported file they will not be defined for operations in their parent 
files. This because cfengine reads in all the import files after the main 
file has been parsed\u2014not at the place where you call import in your 
script. This means that variables or macros defined in imported files are 
only defined after the main program. Variables from earlier files are 
inherited by later includes, but not vice-versa."

        :)

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