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Re: Strategy for "one-off" tasks


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: Strategy for "one-off" tasks
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:23:56 -0400
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, ssrat@mailbag.com wrote:
> WHile we're discussing it - why not write your code like this
> instead?
> 
> classes:
> 
>      AlwaysUpdate = ( FileExists(/var/cfengine/.update-always) )
> 
> shellcommands:
> 
>      DoUpdate||AlwaysUpdate::
>          "apt-get -q -y update && touch /var/cfengine/.updatedone"

It's six one way, half dozen the other...  I think it's cleaner to
define a separate class, but your way is just as good in its brevity.

Ted




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