[Infrastructures] Is cfengine a good tool?

[Andrews, Martin]

I also have found myself working around cfengine over the years and am now
working on a way to generate cfengine configuration files. But I have come
to think this may be a good thing. If anything I want cfengine to be
"dumber". I now view cfengine as an engine that takes low level commands
were compiled by my smarter build scripts. These build scripts complete
before I release them to the gold host - so my "clever" code completes and
can be verified be it goes out.

That said I agree that the domain setting is annoying. I would like to dig
into the code a bit because I think it should be possible to do without the
setting if you want - the secure copies shouldn't require it. Then you would
only set the domain if you wanted cfengine to enforce it.

Martin
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Martin Andrews
Cleveland IT Manager
LION bioscience Inc.
martin.andrews@lionbioscience.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke A. Kanies [mailto:luke@madstop.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: Tim Writer
> Cc: infrastructures@terraluna.org
> Subject: Re: [Infrastructures] Is cfengine a good tool?
... 
> I've decided to implement cfengine at my work on a test basis, but I'm
> largely doing three things with it:  Verifying important 
> processes like
> cron, sshd, and syslogd are running, checking permissions and 
> ownerships
> of files and directories, and running ISconf.  There are 
> other things I'm
> interested in doing, but all of them require me to 
> autogenerate cfengine
> code and run that, rather than being able to write scripts in 
> cfengine,
> which seems like a hefty limitation.
> 
> Cfengine is kind of amazing in that I've never seen a tool 
> used so heavily
> but which has so many people trying to work around it.
> 
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