Re: cfengine help

[Mark . Burgess]

On 14 Nov, Satyan Persaud wrote:
> Mark,
>      My name is Satyan Persaud, I am currently doing my masters at Queens
> College, City University of New York.
>      I was trying to install cfengine on my HPUX 700 workstation runing
> 10.20, (name of box is sat5050),  at work.
> 
> I went to http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/ , and downloaded cfengine-1.5.3 for
> HP-UX 10.20 (binary file).
> I installed cfengine, along with flex and bison (required dependencies).
> 
> This made /opt/cfengine/sbin /opt/cfengine/doc /opt/cfengine/share/cfengine
> subdirectiories.
> 
> When I try to run /opt/cfengine/sbin/cfengine, I got the following error:
> sat5050: (CFINPUTS is set ot <nothing>)
> sat5050: Can't open fiel cfengine.conf
> 
> Where do I  put the cfengine.conf file, and what do I need to put in it.  I
> tried to copy /opt/cfengine/share/cfengine/cfengine.conf.example to
> /opt/cfengine/share/cfengine/cfengine.conf,  but that did not work,
> 
> 
> My goal for this project is to show how cfengine works, as in
> Software-Practice and Experience, December 1998.
> 
> 
> I did the following command and got this text file:
> /opt/cfengine/sbin/cfengine  -p -v
> 
> (See attached file: cf_type2.txt)
> 
> 
> Any info will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank You,
> Sat.


Check out the web site documentation at http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine
and also lecture number 8 from
http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/lectures/sysadm

good luck
Mark

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