Re: Step by Step Startup ??

[Tim Nelson]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Dave Thacker wrote:

> On Friday 18 February 2005 11:58, David Masterson wrote:
> > Boy, I am getting rusty in my old age...
> >
> > Is there a good step by step startup guide for getting CFEngine up and
> > running?  I note the following issues:
> >
> > 1. The "Getting started" section in the cfengine-Tutorial seems written
> > from the point that you have CFEngine installed and running and are looking
> > to better understand what to do next.  I'm looking for more on the steps
> > after "make install", but before you get cfengine running.

        Assuming you're talking about a master server...

        I would've thought the answer would be:
1.      Get some config files from somewhere
2.      Put it somewhere on your filesystem on your master server
        somewhere, with all the .conf files in /var/cfengine/inputs

        Is this the kind of information you were after?

> I have found some helpful info in the book "Automating Unix and Linux
> Administration" by Kirk Bauer.  Apress  ISBN 1-59059-212-3.
> Chapter 6 does a fair walkthrough of cfengine.   I used it to get my testbed
> built.

	While we're plugging books, Mark's book has a cfengine section 
too: "Principles of Network and Systems Administration" (2nd Ed), Mark 
Burgess.

	I'm also working on a package that you can install that will be 
all the basic cfengine files needed on the cfengine master.  That should 
hopefully help fill the gap a little too.

	I'm not sure if either of the above are what you need (since I'm 
not sure what you need), but I thought I'd at least mention them.

        :)

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