Re: copy w/failover clarification

[Alexander Jolk]

Tod Oace wrote:
> The reference manual does say that Cfengine iterates over the server  
> field ("Iterative expansion is currently restricted to:"). [...]
> I still can't  think of an 
> application for pulling something from multiple servers.  Anyone doing 
> this?

Yes, I'm using this feature in order to collect some information from 
all of my hosts.  They all locally put a few files named after the local 
host name, into /var/cfengine/collect/, and I then copy this directory 
from several machines to a single one, recursively so as to finally 
collect everything on the master server.  Works quite nicely, actually.

Alex


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