Re: newbie question ...

[Brendan Strejcek]

That's correct. If you have cfservd running on a master though, the
clients only need to have update.conf at the beginning.


Atom Powers wrote:

> I'm just starting with cfengine myself, and although it looks to be
> very powerful the documentation isn't easy to follow.
>
> I /think/ what you will want to do is install cfengine on each system
> and copy your update.conf and cfagent.conf files into your include
> directory (/var/cfengine/include/). Then run `cfagent` once and it
> should pull down the rest of the configuration, if you have your
> update.conf set up correctly and cfservd running on the master.
>
> I am not at this stage myself yet, so I can't be sure...