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Re: cfengine ideology question


From: Tim Nelson
Subject: Re: cfengine ideology question
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:20:39 +1000 (EST)

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Lev Lvovsky wrote:

> One of our administrators up and left from work recently, so it's
> getting even more important that we get something like cfengine up and
> running (the process has been sidelined by many other things sadly).
>
> I realize that cfagent can execute scripts on a box, but from an
> ideology perspective, is this a bad idea?  One of the main reasons that

        To my mind, only in that you have to look through more files to
find out what's going on.  But I know I run scripts in a number of places
I find necessary.

> we would use cfagent is to run scripts at designated times, or
> depending on certain circumstances (software release etc...) - is it
> generally done so that you use the functionality of cfagent/cfengine to
> run stuff with its own built-ins, or are external scripts just as
> welcome in its use?

        Well, it seems to me that that usage is just as a glorified Cron,
and that sounds fine to me :).


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