Re: SUMMARY (Re: [SAGE] cfengine install help?)

[Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Mark C. Langston wrote:

> [ con mucho deletia ] 
> 6)  create /var/cfengine/update.conf and /var/cfengine/cfservd.conf
> (Eric's examples above are good for starters)

This is probably just a typo/thinko but these should be 
    /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf	and
    /var/cfengine/inputs/cfservd.conf

> editfiles:
>    # Make sure cfexecd runs hourly from cron too
>    {  /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
>       AppendIfNoSuchLine
>          "0 * * * * root /usr/local/sbin/cfexecd -F"
>    }

cfagent run in daemon mode will also auto-execute every hour by default.

I can't help commenting on your use of "editfiles:" here -- see
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-cfengine/2003-12/msg00019.html
for the full rant, but suffice it to say I think it's a bad idiom
to get used to.

> Hence the power of cfengine in widescale deployment: change one config file
> to effect widespread changes on multiple hosts on a pull rather than push
> basis.

Yep... and never underestimate the power of cfengine to make, in a fully
convergent and automated fashion, hundreds of systems totally useless.

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    Eric Sorenson - EXPLOSIVE Networking - http://explosive.net