RE: cf3: incorrect parsing or misdocumented file_select.search_owners attribute

"Faehl, Chris" <[email protected]> Wed, 6 May 2009 11:48:39 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.bugs
Message-ID <C3184DD2010F814F88A2A3F1B613A963054EA9B2CA@CCRCMS2.corp.rightnow.com>
Cf-promise works a treat now on the test case - thanks! Have yet to actually run the test case through cf-agent through, I'm short of time, hopefully in a few hours.

And by the way - amazing responsiveness, Mark! Thank you!

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Chris Faehl
Hosting Engineering Systems Manager, RightNow Technologies


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Burgess [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:22 AM
To: Faehl, Chris
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: cf3: incorrect parsing or misdocumented file_select.search_owners attribute


Ok - I've thought about this now. Please try svn and tell me if it
works as expected.

M

Faehl, Chris wrote:
> Using cfengine 3.0.1 and cfengine 3 svn 328:
> Objective: find unowned files and assign them a default owner.
> Problem: search_owners doesn't seem to really accept regexes, as documented examples suggest. Search_groups suffers this same malady. It's difficult to see how the required objective could be met without at least working character classes and the "+" operator.