cfengine guru? :-)

Thu Aug 30 17:20:47 PDT 2007

On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:

>
> I got my framework now working, including being able to "push" by
> using cfrun to get cfagent to trigger to check for updates.
>

OK, good that you got it working.  Be aware though that really cfrun  
is for 'last resort' kinds of problems - mostly the way it's supposed  
to run
is that you make some change on your server configs, the clients  
check in regularly via update.conf to download the updated config and  
perform whatever action you want them to do, semi-autonomously.

> Now I am starting to look at policies what to implement, well
> started with integrating some stuff from my kickstart configs.
> Need to rework my yum repository to make it work correctly with
> both our 32bit and 64bit installs we are now having.

Good luck with that, I found 64-bit redhat to be completely broken.  
Why on earth do they have separate /usr/lib and /usr/lib64  
directories, but put binaries together in /usr/bin!?  64-bit packages  
are allowed to over-write 32-bit programs which leads to a complete  
mess, especially for programs which use the '/usr/bin/<pkg>-cfg'  
convention to tell autoconf how to build for them...

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