@stacksofplates said in Scripted visudo updates:

@DustinB3403 said in Scripted visudo updates:

Well I managed to get the file created, I had to use visudo to create a custom file with my edits.

I'm testing it now to see if everything works.

Really? It doesn't let you just sudo a file in the dump directory? I wonder how they are enforcing that?

Yeah, not sure why it was having a hissy fit over it, but I've got a good working custom sudoer.d/god file now that can be used for what I have, and I can simply cp that into the appropriate folder and reset the perms on it (if required) to get everything working.

Thanks for the help guys!

@wrx7m said in Fedora - Automating Config File Modifications:

Without using a CM tool, what is the easiest way to automate modifications to several config files across 7-8 servers? I was looking at sed, but am not sure if there is a better tool that isn't a CM.

More specifically, I have several Fedora servers running squid proxy. From time to time, I need to modify the config file to whitelist a particular domain. Because I will soon have a few more servers, I would like to automate these type of file updates so I don't have to manually go into each server's config and copy and paste stuff in to certain sections; some information is specific to a particular server, where as this section would be universally necessary on all servers. So, I would be inserting lines in specific sections.

I intend to move to some sort of CM for this stuff in the future, but I need to get these going sooner than I could learn the CM tool.

Sync with a s3 bucket hourly. Then you only need to update on s3

@DustinB3403 said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces:

@JaredBusch said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces:

I typically use / instead of ~ for the delimiter, looks right.

Have to use ~ because I'm adding a URL in the part that's being replaced.

Also that did work, not sure why it wasn't showing the change first time.

Thanks for the sanity check.

wait...... I skimmed. I admit..

You have to escape spaces or wrap it in quotes.

Oh it worked.. then all good. Ignore me..

I'm busy unpurging email.

@JaredBusch : I'm not certain if this fits the bill, but what about the "diff" command? Of course, this does nothing to sync the files but does offer a way to simply compare the directories.

diff -rs manxam jaredbusch

This will get you :

Files /home/manxam/TEST and /home/jaredbusch/TEST are identical Only in /home/manxam: i_am_manxam Only in /home/jaredbusch: you_are_jared

@jaredbusch said in How can I sed or regex this out:

@romo said in How can I sed or regex this out:

@jaredbusch said in How can I sed or regex this out:

****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[FiscalMo] Script Date: 11/30/2017 10:24:23 AM ******

sed 's/Script.*M //g'

I need at least one * and the / to close.

So this?

sed 's/Script.*M /\ \*\//g'

You are escaping seds delimiters with that.

Changing the delimiters for better clarity:

sed 's|Script.*M ||g'

From Script to M + space, replace with space,. It keeps all your * and the final /.

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