help getting started

[Kelly Brown]

Hi:

I'm hoping that somebody can point me in the right direction to get me 
going.  I'm VERY new to cfengine and can't seem to get past this on 
stumbling block.  When I run cfagent it wants the cfagent.conf file to 
already be copied over.  I thought that the first thing cfagent did was 
to run the update.conf.  So if my update.conf is ok then I should be 
able to copy the cfagent.conf with that.  It works if I copy the file 
over myself and then run cfagent.

Also on the client, when I run cfagent, after coping the cfagent.conf 
and the update.conf by hand, it copies everything into 
/var/lib/cfagent2/inputs/inputs and /var/lib/cfagent2/inputs/bin.  It 
creates the bin and inputs directory where I just want the files to be 
copied.  I've tried all different changes to my configuration but it 
still does this.  I tried a striped down update.conf, it did the same thing.

I've attached the update.conf and cfagent.conf that I'm working with.  
Also I'm running the cfengine2 from debian testing.  It's 2.1.10-2.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, I'm sure I'm overlooking 
something simple but I can't figure it out. 

Thx
-Kelly


control:

   actionsequence  = ( copy processes tidy )  # Keep this simple and constant

   domain          = ( mydomain.com )  # Needed for remote copy

   #
   # Which host/dir is the master for configuration roll-outs?
   #

   policyhost      = ( myhost )
   master_cfinput  = ( /var/lib/cfengine2/inputs )

   AddInstallable = ( new_cfenvd new_cfservd )

   #
   # Some convenient variables
   #

   workdir         = ( /var/lib/cfengine2 )

  linux::

   cf_install_dir  = ( /usr/sbin )
   ###################################################################
   #
   # Spread the load, make sure the servers get done first though
   #
   ###################################################################

  !AllBinaryServers::

     SplayTime = ( 1 )

############################################################################

 #
 # Make sure there is a local copy of the configuration and
 # the most important binaries in case we have no connectivity
 # e.g. for mobile stations or during DOS attacks
 #

copy:

     $(master_cfinput)            dest=$(workdir)
                                  recurse=1
                                  mode=644
                                  type=binary
                                  exclude=*.lst
                                  exclude=*~
                                  exclude=#*
                                  exclude=RCS*
                                  exclude=*,v
                                  server=$(policyhost)

     $(cf_install_dir)/cfagent    dest=$(workdir)/bin/cfagent
                                  mode=755
                                  backup=false
                                  type=checksum

     $(cf_install_dir)/cfservd    dest=$(workdir)/bin/cfservd
                                  mode=755
                                  backup=false
                                  type=checksum
                                  define=new_cfservd

     $(cf_install_dir)/cfexecd    dest=$(workdir)/bin/cfexecd
                                  mode=755
                                  backup=false
                                  type=checksum

     $(cf_install_dir)/cfenvd     dest=$(workdir)/bin/cfenvd
                                  mode=755
                                  backup=false
                                  type=checksum
                                  define=new_cfenvd

#####################################################################

tidy:

     #
     # Cfexecd stores output in this directory.
     # Make sure we don't build up files and choke on our own words!
     #

     $(workdir)/outputs pattern=* age=14

#####################################################################

processes:

  new_cfservd::

    "cfservd" signal=term restart /var/cfengine/bin/cfservd

  new_cfenvd::

    "cfenvd" signal=kill restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfenvd -H"


###
#
# END cf.update
#
###

control:
        actionsequence = ( files directories tidy disable processes )
        domain         = ( mydomain.com )
        timezone       = ( PDT PST )
        access         = ( root )
        # Where cfexecd sends reports
        smtpserver     = ( mail.mydomain.com )
        sysadm         = ( me.mydomain.com )

files:
        /etc/passwd mode=644 owner=root action=fixall
        /etc/shadow mode=600 owner=root action=fixall
        /etc/group  mode=644 owner=root action=fixall

directories:
        /tmp mode=1777 owner=root group=root

tidy:
        /tmp recurse=inf age=7 rmdirs=sub

disable:
        /root/.rhosts
        /etc/hosts.equiv

processes:
        "cfservd" restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfservd"
        "cfexecd" restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd"