We need to handle the string returned by 'default' in the same way we handle
the string returned by 'status' since the resulting flags are compared later.
* Use the newly added 'default' argument to know if the default flags are set
or not.
* Handle that 'status' may either return flags or YES/NO.
* Centralize flag handling logic.
* Set action variable after check if we need to keep going.
Big thanks to @ajacoutot for implementing the rcctl 'default' argument.
* Make the module support enable/disable of special services like pf via rcctl.
Idea and method from @jarmani.
* Make the module handle when the user supplied 'arguments' variable does not
match the current flags in rc.conf.local.
* Update description now that the code tries to use rcctl for everything if it
is available.
Based on input from @jarmani:
* A return value of 2 now means a service does not exist. Instead of
trying to handle the different meanings of rc after running "status",
just look at stderr to know if something failed.
* Skip looking at stdout to make the code cleaner. Any errors should
turn up on stderr.
standards compliant return codes but return a verbose error message via
stdout. Limit the times when we invoke the heuristic to attempt to work
around this.
Centos 6.x and below use an old RHT style of configuring hostname.
CentOS 7.x and better use systemd. Instead of depending on the
distribution string which seems to have changed over the course of 6.x
we need to explicitly check the version.
Fixes#8997
The "name" parameter seems to be rather important as the identifying feature of a cron job. This is an update to the documentation to further emphasize this.
As far as I can tell, `name` is a required parameter. The guard test at (now) line 458 says you need name if `state == present` and at 464 if `state != present`, although that's not quite as clear. Each of the code paths at 485 - 495 pass the name param through to `add_job`, `update_job` and `remove_job`, and the actual _update_job method earlier seems to require it too. However I don't really know python so I may be wrong, but I can't see the circumstances when `name` is not required.
This avoids a stale situation where name/path contains some impossible path,
but gets configured (faultly) in fstab, and the module only fails after that,
when creating that path.
We wrap get_distribution_version() with a new function,
_get_distribution_version(), that returns `0` when the result is a string or
`None`.
This accounts for the case when get_distribution_version() returns a string,
and we try to compare it to a float. We do this in the hostname module instead
of the module snippets because other modules may want the real string
version.module snippets because other modules may want the real string version.
