Re: Newbie help with how to implement update andcfagent.conffiles

[Brendan Strejcek]

Luke Youngblood wrote:

> I too would like to know what the hell cfenvd does exactly. I know
> on some systems that don't have proper /dev/random support (Solaris,
> I'm looking at you :-) it generates entropy, but what else does it do
> besides that?
>
> I don't like having daemons running on my box unless I know EXACTLY
> what they do. As near as I can tell, I get the same benefit from
> running only cfagent through cron as I do from running the entire
> cfengine stack.
>
> Would someone be willing to give me a summary?

These might be of use:

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Anomalies.html

http://www.cfengine.org/manpages.phtml?page=cfenvd.html.txt

http://www.cfengine.org/confdir/cfenvd.html