Re: [hobbit] client-local.cfg

[Dominique Frise <dominique.frise (at) unil.ch>]

David Masterson (damaster) wrote:
> I can't quite figure it out from the documentation.  Are the sections in 
> the client-local.cfg file cumulative?  That is, if I have a redhat 
> server named "servA", do both the "[redhat]" and "[servA]" sections 
> apply?  Or is it just the first section in the cfg file that matches 
> that applies?

[servA] will apply.

[redhat] will apply for all others redhat hosts without [hostname] section.

Extract of man client-local.cfg(5):

FILE FORMAT
     The file is divided into  sections,  delimited  by  "[name]"
     lines.   A  section  name  can be either an operating system
     identifier - linux, solaris, hp-ux, aix,  freebsd,  openbsd,
     netbsd,  darwin - or a hostname. When deciding which section
     to send to a client, Hobbit will first look  for  a  section
     named  after  the  hostname of the client; if such a section
     does not exist, it will look for  a  section  named  by  the
     operating system of the client. So you can configure special
     configurations for individual hosts, and have a default con-
     figuration for all other hosts of a certain type.

     Apart from the section delimiter, the file format  is  free-
     form,  or rather it is defined by the tools that make use of
     the configuration.


Dominique