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author | Chris St. Pierre <chris.a.st.pierre@gmail.com> | 2012-05-14 11:06:34 -0400 |
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committer | Chris St. Pierre <chris.a.st.pierre@gmail.com> | 2012-05-14 11:06:34 -0400 |
commit | 9e72515db88a7de8ccdde256314c2671cc011bbb (patch) | |
tree | 2d1463fe7bfb78f0fa919bcef343b81e5464da47 /doc | |
parent | 431585802124d3b1cb5f6a730999609ddf52b7af (diff) | |
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added docs for selectively disabling Cfg validation
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diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/cfg.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/cfg.txt index 1d9d55927..031c9e3fc 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/cfg.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/cfg.txt @@ -237,13 +237,19 @@ For ``sudoers``, a very simple validator is:: This uses the ``visudo`` command's built-in validation. -.. note: - - Before 1.3 is released, it will be possible to disable validation - in the configuration, but enable it for ``bcfg2-test``. This is - recommended for heavily-used servers, since running an external - command is fairly resource intensive and could quickly exhaust the - file descriptors of a server. +If you wish to disable validation, this can be done with the following +setting in ``bcfg2.conf``:: + + [cfg] + validation=no + +If you have a very large number of validators, you may wish to disable +validation by default to avoid slowing down the generation of +configurations on the server, and use ``bcfg2-test`` (for instance, as +a post-commit hook or as part of a code review process) to run +validation. You can do this by setting ``validation=no`` in +``bcfg2.conf`` as described above, and then calling ``bcfg2-test`` +with the ``--cfg-validation`` flag. File permissions ================ |