RE: Strategy for "one-off" tasks

[Nielsen, Steve]

Steve

I don't use cfengine for one off tasks. Although I would be interested in
hearing ideas on how others do it. Instead, to handle one offs, I wrote a
wrapper around ssh (called sshauto) to loop over a set of machines and
execute a command on each machine. I specify regexes for machines names and
it queries DNS or hosts file. Its fairly clunky way of doing it but it
works.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferguson, Steve [mailto:Steve.Ferguson@gedas.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:08 AM
To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: Strategy for "one-off" tasks


I'm interested in hearing how people are applying cfengine to perform "one
off" system management tasks.  It's fairly obvious how one would insert a
new configuration task in on a recurring basis.  But how would you approach
a task that you only want to execute one time?  I've got a few different
ideas in mind, but I'd like to hear what other folks have been doing in
practice before I commit to any one process.

Steve

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