Re: How can I extend the types of configuration managed by cfengine?

[Daniel Pittman]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Frank Smith wrote:
> Have you considered placing your script (and any associated files)
> in the 'files' section to distribute it and using the 'shellcommands'
> section to control running it ?  A module might be more elegant, but
> shellcommands is a quick and dirty way to integrate existing scripts.

Yes. This is perfectly possible and was what I initially considered.

I can do this, fairly trivially. It's the quick and dirty nature of it
that I want to avoid. I use cfengine so that I /don't/ write quick and
dirty scripts to do this and that. :)

      Daniel

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