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2.1 KiB
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68 lines
2.1 KiB
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cdist-explorer(7)
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Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>
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NAME
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----
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cdist-explorer - Explore the target systems
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DESCRIPTION
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Explorer are small shell scripts, which will be executed on the target
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host. The aim of the explorer is to give hints to types on how to act on the
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target system. An explorer outputs the result to stdout, which is usually
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a one liner, but may be empty or multi line especially in the case of
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type explorers.
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There are general explorers, which are run in an early stage, and
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type explorers. Both work almost exactly the same way, with the difference
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that the values of the general explorers are stored in a general location and
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the type specific below the object.
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Explorers can reuse other explorers on the target system by calling
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$__explorer/<explorer_name> (general and type explorer) or
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$__type_explorer/<explorer name> (type explorer).
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In case of significant errors, the explorer may exit non-zero and return an
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error message on stderr, which will cause cdist to abort.
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You can also use stderr for debugging purposes while developing a new
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explorer.
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EXAMPLES
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--------
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A very simple explorer may look like this:
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hostname
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Which is in practise the "hostname" explorer.
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A type explorer, which could check for the status of a package may look like this:
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if [ -f "$__object/parameter/name" ]; then
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name="$(cat "$__object/parameter/name")"
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else
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name="$__object_id"
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fi
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# Except dpkg failing, if package is not known / installed
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dpkg -s "$name" 2>/dev/null || exit 0
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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- cdist(1)
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- cdist-reference(7)
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- cdist-stages(7)
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COPYING
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-------
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Copyright \(C) 2010-2011 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is
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granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
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