Re: Suggestion for cfexecd

[Bas van der Vlies]

In the setup i proposed you will get email because on Hr00 there will
be output produced and the runs before Hr00 there was no output. So the
current differs from previous.

On 25 Jul 2002 16:08:00 -0400
Jacob Lee <jlee@landrum-brown.com> wrote:

> I would have to disagree with this implementation. In my cfengine
> configuration, there is only output if the machines actually perform an
> action; otherwise, they stay silent. Here's the only exception:
> 
> shellcommands:
>   Hr00::
>     "/bin/echo Checking in" inform=false
>     "/bin/echo My ip is `[... awk script ...]`" inform=false
> 
> This way, I only get e-mail once a day (to keep track of which machines
> are up & listening) or if something changes (in which case I would want
> to know about it). If the old implementation is brought back, it may be
> best to have it as a configuration option.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:15, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> > 
> >  In the old cfengine days ;-) there was only mail if something has
> >  changed from the previous run. Now days we get mail if cfagent
> >  produces some output. I liked the first implementation.  Can this
> >  also be implemented in the new cfengine?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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