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Basic Cheetah Templates

This simple example demonstrates basic usage of Cheetah templates.

/var/lib/bcfg2/Cfg/foo/foo.cheetah

Hostname is $self.metadata.hostname
Filename is $self.path
Template is $self.source_path
Groups:
#for $group in $self.metadata.groups:
 * $group
#end for
Categories:
#for $category in $self.metadata.categories:
 * $category -- $self.metadata.categories[$category]
#end for

Probes:
#for $probe in $self.metadata.Probes:
 * $probe -- $self.metadata.Probes[$probe]
#end for

Output

<Path type="file" name="/foo" owner="root" mode="0644" group="root">
Hostname is topaz.mcs.anl.gov
Filename is /foo
Template is /var/lib/bcfg2/Cfg/foo/foo.cheetah
Groups:
 * desktop
 * mcs-base
 * ypbound
 * workstation
 * xserver
 * debian-sarge
 * debian
 * a
Categories:
 * test -- a

Probes:
 * os -- debian
</Path>

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