New0.30

These functions are new in (R)?ex Version 0.30. Download (R)?ex here: http://rexify.org/.

General

• 2 functions to get more details of users.

  # to get a list of all users
  my @users = user_list();
  # to get the groups of user "foo"
  my @groups = user_groups("foo");

• New option "type" for the extract function to force the archive type.

• New option "mode" for the extract function.

• rex -T now show the server groups as well

• Better error messages for compile failures in modules

• Added support for task specific parallelism

  task "foo", group => "myservers", sub {
     # print do something
  };
  Rex::TaskList->get_task("foo")->set_parallelism(10);

• Added on_change support to the append_if_no_such_line function.

  task "foo", group => "myservers", sub {
      append_if_no_such_line "/etc/groups", "mygroup:*:100:myuser1,myuser2",
            on_change => sub { print "/etc/groups was changed...\n"; };
  };

Bugfixes

• Fixed the problem with pass_auth and rsync.

• Fixed upload and download function to work in sudo environments.