Radmind vs CFengine

[Chris Kacoroski]

Hi,

I am looking to implement an enterprise infrastructure (see 
infrastructures.org) and am trying to decide between radmind and 
cfengine.  Searching the archives and google, The only thing I could 
find was a transcript from a LISA '03 BoF session on configuration 
management.  After looking at both it seems that cfengine allows a 
person to program into it semantics of the system files (e.g. the 
editfiles command) while radmind does not have any idea of what may be 
in a file.  As such radmind can only replace files which makes it much 
simpler to use (e.g. no scripts to write).  In addition, radmind 
enables a person to install software on a machine and then it will 
automatically figure out what files were changed and create a script to 
replication the installation on other machines.

Question1: Does anyone have examples of when just replacing a file will 
not work?

Question2: Does cfengine have any way to determine changes to a machine 
and create a install scripts or is it preferred to use a third party 
software installer for this functionality?

cheers,

ski

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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, ckacoroski@nsd.org, 425-681-0092