RE: Switching off a shellcommand with empty list variable

[Atom Powers]

Better way, modify the script that returns the colon-separated list to exit 1
if there are no ports and 0 if there are ports. Check the reference, but you
may be able to do something like this:

Classes:
        portupgrade = ReturnsZero(<port-finder-script>)

Shellcommands:
        portupgrade::
                "/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade $(missing_ports)"

Or if cfengine leaves a variable undefined if they are empty you could do
this
Classes:
        portupgrade = IsDefined(missing_ports)

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Atom Powers
Systems Administrator
Pyramid Breweries Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: help-cfengine-bounces+apowers=pyramidbrew.com@gnu.org
[mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+apowers=pyramidbrew.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of
Jeremy Mates
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:24 AM
To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Switching off a shellcommand with empty list variable

* David Baird <dave@riverside-cms.co.uk>
> The perl one-liner returns a colon-separated list of ports that need 
> to be installed. The problem is that if there are no missing ports, 
> the shellcommand still gets called. Is there any way I can set a class 
> if $(missing_ports) is empty?

Perhaps wrap portupgrade and abort if the arguments list is empty?

  "/usr/local/sbin/wrap-portupgrade $(missing_ports)"


  #!/bin/sh
  [ -z "$1" ] && exit
  exec /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade $@

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Jeremy Mates                     (206) 22 1-4714
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