Re: possible to undefine hostname class?

[Chip Seraphine]

Taking the conversation in a sharp left turn....

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 02:06, David Kewley wrote

> What Eric is doing is pretty cool.  But I'm not going to use it, because I 
> don't want to split the intelligence between my cfagent scripts and the cgi 
> script.  I want all intelligence in the cfagent scripts for simplicity.

FWIW, whenever I find myself in what I call "the authority problem", I usually 
just use the best tool for the job (in Eric's case, a cgi probably written in 
shell or perl) and then have *that* tool maintained by cfengine.    For 
example, the CGI could spit out results from a datafile that cfengine 
assembles.

I figure my goal is not to have the cfengine interpreter do all the work 
itself so much as to have a centralized point of authority; in other words, a 
self-enforcing piece of documentation that I *know* is 100% right, because if 
it was wrong it would go out and change the environment until it *was* right.