Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting

[Mark Burgess]

> "Cfengine is designed to be a part of a computer immune system,"
> 
> which implies that it is a building block, not a framework, so maybe
> the goal of cfengine should be something like this: 
> "cfengine is designed to be the framework for a compute immune
> system".
> 
> Which would imply that if we want to build a compute immune system we
> will have cfengine as the framework and other tools will provide help,
> let's say use 'tripwire' for file system security/integrity, 'snort'
> for intrusion detection, etc.
> 
> But we need to define what exactly we want cfengine to be, then start
> working from there.
> 

Cfengine is a framework for part of a computer immune system.
No one knows what a computer immunesystem is -- so it would be silly
to say that cfengine is the last word. But it is still a framework
for management....??

M

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