Re: Bootstrapping cfengine.

[Elmar Kurgpold]

There are many ways to do this.  You can use cf.preconf to bootstrap
cfengine just about any way you choose.  We do this during jumpstart on
Solaris.  The cfengine binary runs off an NFS mount on the jumpstart
server via finish script, runs cf.preconf which copies all the cfengine
files, then executes those files.  The copy could be done via NFS, but in
this case we use cfd on the jumpstart server.  One of those cfengine files
actually installs cfengine on the new system.

        ++Elmar


On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Alexander Mattausch wrote:

> Arnold Troeger wrote:
> 
> >Apologies in advance for asking what may be an obvious question.  I have
> >several Sun servers that don't run NFS and I would like to use cfengine
> >to configure them.  I'm guessing that I can use cfrun to configure them
> >remotely, but what parts of cfengine and the configuration files need to
> >be on the remote machine to be able to do this?
> >
> You need cfd running on the server (properly configured) and a 
> repository for your configuration files. On the clients you also need 
> cfd in order to start cfengine by cfrun. You only need cfengine 
> completely installed on the server if the server will also be configured 
> by cfengine.
> 
> Regards,
> Alex
> 
> 
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