Re: Help with TimeClasses

[Tim Nelson]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> I've been using cfengine for a long time, but I've always been using very
> minimal aspects of cfengine.  I've been using a complete push environment,
> with no hosts using cfexecd.    I have very large configuration
> definitions that seem reasonable when used on an infrequent basis.
> However, I'm trying to make the jump to using cfexecd and timeclasses,
> because I need to eliminate some of the million little scripts all over
> the place.    If I cfexecd a config that has absolutely no timeperiods
> defined at this time does that mean, that it will A) Always execute no
> matter what time?  or B) Will never execute unless pushed.

        I suggest you read the cfexecd reference:
http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#Cfexecd%20reference

        The answer is in the first section there somewhere.

> Probably not the best phrasing, because I just can't quite grasp how to
> incorporate it into what I'm currently doing...
>
> Any suggestions...tips.   Thanks for the help.

        I've effectively got a cfagent.conf that goes like this:
------------------------------------
import:
        cf.classes
        cf.fileinc
------------------------------------

        ...and a cf.fileinc that goes like this:
------------------------------------
import:
        any::
                cf.main.all

        ServerPhase_Manual::
                cf.main.old
------------------------------------

	ServerPhase_Manual is a class defined in cf.classes.  Anyway, my 
point is that, if you do this, and put your current config in cf.main.old, 
and add a time class to the ServerPhase_Manual section, it'll only get run 
eg. once a day, and then you can schedule cf.main.all to run eg. every 
half hour, and anything that you want to run half-hourly can be put in 
cf.main.all.

	You'll probably want to change the filenames to something that 
makes sense in your setting.

        :)

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