Re: Method to assure that action was taken

[Brendan Strejcek]

Chris Kacoroski wrote:

> Since I have several hundred laptop clients who are on and off the
> network, I would like to have a method where cfengine tells me that it
> has completed an action on a client (e.g. update a central database or
> ???).

That is exactly what I have done in the past, though I am not doing it
currently. I had a simple perl script that knew how to update a central
database. The script was run as a shellcommand if a particular class was
set.

Before friendstatus, I used the same method to create a "last seen"
table.