Re: masterfiles vs. inputs and CVS

[Zeev Fisher]

Hi,

/var/cfengine/inputs is the configuration directory. update.conf should
check if newer files exist on the cf server and if yes , update the
local copy. You should maintain only one copy - the remote copy. There's
local copy in order to protect you in case of network failure/other
failure to fetch the remote config files.

masterfiles usually refer to the files you copy ( not related to
cfengine ) with cfengine. Also with this one , you should keep only one
copy.



Zeev



On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:16, Robert Helmer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just starting out with cfengine, seems like just what I need so far.
> 
> I have noticed that in many of the tutorials I have come across, there
> are seperate "masterfiles" and "inputs" (usually /var/cfengine/inputs)
> directories.. masterfiles for config files that are to be distributed 
> out to clients, and the regular inputs for the policy server.
> 
> I don't see the need to have seperate configs on the policy server
> and all the other servers. What I have done so far is to set up
> the basic update.conf, cfservd.conf and a cfagent.conf that simply
> does imports of my actual scripts; all of these files are checked
> into a CVS module. cfengine does an export of this CVS module
> every time it runs, and copies the files to masterfiles/inputs/
> and /var/cfengine/inputs (/var/cfengine/inputs does not stay
> world-readable, otherwise I'd just use that one location for all).
> 
> Am I missing something fundamental here ? :)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob Helmer
> 
> 
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