On 05/24/2010 09:38 PM, Christophe Kalt wrote: > On 2010-05-22, Joe McDonagh wrote: > >> On 05/22/2010 11:45 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: >>> Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison between >> those >>> guys, or even one including commercial products? >> > > I've had my own home-grown tool for so long that I haven't looked at any of > these for many years, but one question I always have is this: If one > modifies a file that is not under the control of your tool of choice, does > it get flagged as having been modified?
Not in puppet, I'm pretty sure bcfg2 has this capability but I could be wrong since I don't use it. This is more like what I see tripwire existing for. You could always watch a file in puppet as a resource with specific options so that on modification it triggers some other resource. > > [...] > > This is why I chose puppet. Puppet's DSL is made of awesome. >> > > Ah yes, talk about something that makes no sense to me. Why don't these > tool just build upon an existing language?? > cfengine, I can probably understand, it's old enough, but the recent ones? > Why should I have to deal with yet another language? > I'm sure people were saying "Why should I have to deal with another tool?" when wrenches were invented, but that doesn't mean it's not useful at solving certain problems. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
