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