Re: How to make cfengine more verbose?

[Ed Brown]

The '-I' option may come closer to what you want, but is not necessarily
complete.  For example, editfiles actions are not necessarily included. 

This type of information, a complete, consistent accounting only of
changes actually made, would be an extremely valuable output mode for
cfengine!!  

-Ed


On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 09:48, Lyndon C. Lim wrote:
> We are thinking of creating a database
> of all our machines.  The database would
> record transaction results from what
> cfengine does to the computers.  This
> would give us the ability to quickly
> review, at a glance, how our CPU farm
> is doing.
> 
> To do this, we would need cfengine to
> be more verbose, as it currently is
> inclined to be very quiet.  Trying to
> parse the output from --verbose seems
> to be our only choice, but not an
> appealing one, as it isn't designed
> systematic parsing.  Also, we aren't
> guaranteed that the format remains
> the same in the future.
> 
> Is there any suggestions to what else
> we could do?  Ideally, it would be
> nice if we could associate a message
> string with every action.  Then we could
> design our own scheme for the message
> format which would be friendly for how
> we build our database.