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Re: Cfengine Installing Cfengine


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: Cfengine Installing Cfengine
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:46:27 +0200 (MEST)

Perhaps you are thinking incorrectly about cfengine somehow?
You should never need to write

 cfagent -f update.conf

update.conf is run as a normal phase of a cfagent execution.
To initiate cfengine on each host you simply need a copy
of the full configuration and a copy of cfagent binary,
mounted temporarily or copied as part of the installation
procedure or whatever.  Let's suppose you mount these
temporarily onto /mnt/tmp

Then you do

export CFINPUTS=/mnt/tmp
/mnt/tmp/cfagent

and you're off. CFengine can install its local copies
in /var/cfengine, it can install itself as a cron job,
or start cfexecd in dameon mode, or both...and you're away.
Thereafter it shuold juts work.

This is how we install all hosts here. I know of people who
add this to jumpstart/kickstart as part of their insallation
for new hosts.

M

On 14 Oct, Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
> It does install itself but only on 1 client.  If I run update.conf (which 
> imports install.conf) from client X, then it only executes on client X; 
> despite the fact that I list 2 other clients in the update.conf file. 
> Note: I am running cfagne -f update.conf from GSA on client X.  How can 
> install on more than 1 client simultaneously?  Your help with this is much 
> appreciated.  I would like to actually get to test Cfengine.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rasheda
> ____________________________________________________
> Rasheda M. Menzies
> Software Engineer
> IBM Watson Research Center
> 1101 Kitchawan Road, Route 134 
> Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
> Tel: 914-945-2401, Tie: 862-2401
>  E-mail: rasheda@us.ibm.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no
> 10/14/2003 04:25 PM
>  
>         To:     Rasheda M Menzies/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS
>         cc:     help-cfengine@gnu.org, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no
>         Subject:        Re: Cfengine Installing Cfengine
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 14 Oct, Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
>> Does Cfengine need some other tool (such as SYSCTL) or script to install 
> 
>> Cfengine on multiple clients.  I am battling with this.  I have created 
> an 
>> install.conf 
>> which creates /var/cfengine..., edits /etc/services, starts appropriate 
>> daemons and copies binaries locally.  I would like to use this install 
>> config file to install
>> Cfengine on a test cluster of 3 to 5 machines.  I have successfully 
>> installed on one machine using this config file.  Do i need to use 
> another 
>> tool to perform the
>> install on multiple machines at once?  Please tell me this isn't so.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Rasheda
> 
> 
> I don't underdtand what you are asking. Why would cfengine need some
> other tool? All you need is to execute some cfagent binary once at
> installation and, if update.conf is set up, it should install itself.
> 
> M
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