Re: editfiles:UnCommentLinesContaining doesn't work as expected ...

[Mark . Burgess]

On 22 Jan, Eric Berggren wrote:
> 
>   ... or is it a feature. i have the following editfiles block :
> 
>     solaris::
>         { /etc/default/login
>                 SetCommentStart '#'
>                 SetCommentEnd ''
>                 UnCommentLinesContaining "CONSOLE="
>                 ResetSearch 1
>                 UnCommentLinesContaining "UMASK="
>                 ResetSearch 1
>                 UnCommentLinesContaining "SUPATH="
>                 ResetSearch 1
>                 UnCommentLinesContaining "TIMEZONE="
>         }
> 
>   against the file /etc/default/login, which contains among other things :
> 
> 
>       # Set the TZ environment variable of the shell.
>       #
>       #TIMEZONE=EST5EDT
> 
>       # If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device.
>       # Comment this line out to allow remote login by root.
>       #
>       #CONSOLE=/dev/console
> 
>       # SUPATH sets the initial shell PATH variable for root
>       #
>       #SUPATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> 
>       # UMASK sets the initial shell file creation mode mask.  See umask(1).
>       #
>       #UMASK=022
> 
> 
>   but it results in :
> 
> 
>       # Set the TZ environment variable of the shell.
>       #
>       =EST5EDT
> 
>       # If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device.
>       # Comment this line out to allow remote login by root.
>       #
>       =/dev/console
> 
>       # SUPATH sets the initial shell PATH variable for root
>       #
>       =/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> 
>       # UMASK sets the initial shell file creation mode mask.  See umask(1).
>       #
>       =022
> 
> rather than removing the initial '#' mark.
> 
> 
>   Am I doing something wrong here ?
> 
>       # cfengine -v
>       Reference time set to Mon Jan 22 16:00:08 2001
>       
>       GNU Configuration Engine - 
>       1.6.1
>       .........
> 
> 
> thanks,
> -eric


I'm going through the backlog of cfengine bug reports which
I have not had time to look at recently. I have tested this
and find that the problem seems to be fixed in the current
version.

best,
Mark


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