editfiles

[James Treleaven]

I know this list gets a lot of questions about the 'editfiles' 
functionality, and I really have looked hard at the docs before posting 
this.

I have found that the approach described by Jamie Wilkinson 
(http://www.shipyard.com.au/articles/sysadmin/cfengine-configfiles.py) 
works for me, but I suspect there is a better way.

Should it really take me 9 lines to code 'Make sure SyslogFacility is 
set to AUTHPRIV in /etc/ssh/sshd_config' as he does it:
---
      BeginGroupIfNoLineMatching '^SyslogFacility.*'
        Append 'SyslogFacility'
      EndGroup
      ResetSearch 1
      LocateLineMatching '^SyslogFacility.*'
      BeginGroupIfNoMatch '^SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV$'
        ReplaceLineWith 'SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV'
      EndGroup
      ResetSearch 1
---

If any of you cfengine gurus wish to share a better idiom, I would 
appreciate it.

thanks,
James