Re: Bugs and features

[Mark . Burgess]

On 24 Sep, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no writes:
> 
>>  What's the point? If you wnat to use rsync, use rsync. If you want
>> fast, straightforward and efficient, use cfengine.  You can always
>> run rsync as a shellcommand....
> 
> I respectfully submit that rsync is fast, straightforward, and
> efficient for a whole lot of tasks.  cfengine's copies are an
> alternate approach, but rsync's approach is valid and quite useful to
> many users.  Also, rsync can run over ssh.
> 
> I already run rsync as a shellcommand.  By the lack of response I
> would guess I'm the only one that is interested in a rsync section.
> 
> Thanks
> Ted


But this is so frustratingly illogical. What is wrong with
rsync the way it is? Why try to forcibly marry cfengine with
a program which works in a different way. Cfengine offers
different things (won't go into that here).
Rsync offers an efficient solution to a special problem.

Running rsync over ssh is fine. Running cfengine over ssh
would be nonsense. CFengine has encyrption which is just as
good, and version 2 will allow you to use strong authentication
without encryption (which makes much more sense for system admin).

I don't mean to lash out at you in particular, but it is 
frustrating to hear this blind faith in ssh and rsync which
I hear alot. Horses for courses. Cfengine was designed with
specific characteristics for a specific reason. It's not
fair to compare these tools.

Mark

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