Re: File and folder rights

Hello Nick, Thanks again for giving me lots of tips on using Cfengine.
I learn about it every day! I will once again follow your recommendations 
and split the promise into several bundles to respect your advice.

Actually I need to transfer a lot of data (ip, hostname, version of 
software etc... ) automatically from my cfengine clients using files, for 
inventory for example.
I am using the Reports function. I create a file on my client which I then 
transfer via SCP to a directory on another resource. 

Is it the best solution or do you advise me to use another function?

Le jeudi 20 mai 2021 à 15:55:29 UTC+2, Nick Anderson a écrit :

> Hi, 
>
> thierry thunot <[email protected]> writes: 
>
> note that after 2 pass it's ok 
>
> Do you mean two passes within a single execution of cf-agent or two 
> executions of cf-agent? 
>
> I see a few things here. 
>
> I see that you are juggling both *files* and *reports* type promises. You 
> seem to be using *files* for managing file/directory presence/absence and 
> permissions, and *reports* for file content. For this I would probably 
> just use the *files* promises. It's not clear to me the benefit that 
> reports promises bring to this policy. 
>
> I see that after the reports promises you have a files promise for 
> permissions. What is your expectation here, that the files promise will 
> actuate *after* the *reports* promises because it is later in the file? 
>
> Remember, promises are actuated in the *normal order* 
> <https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/master/reference-language-concepts-normal-ordering.html> 
> as opposed to the written order. Your policy uses *vars*, *files*, 
> *classes*, and *reports* type promises, per the normal order, the 
> promises will run in the following order: 
>
>    1. vars 
>    2. classes 
>    3. files 
>    4. reports 
>
> You can use classes or the depends_on attribute 
> <https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/master/reference-promise-types.html#depends_on> 
> to influence the order in which promises within a bundle actuate. 
> Alternatively, you could break the policy into multiple bundles and control 
> the order of bundle actuation using *methods* promises. 
>

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