Sorry, Mark. Yes, there was an element of letting off steam, partly because I'm still struggling, despite significant cf-2 experience, to get my poor little head around cf-3. (I could really, really do with a "cookbook"; and with step-by-step definitions and examples. The definitions and descriptions of cf-3 concepts such as bundles and bodies and components etc. seem to be incomplete or fuzzy. (And half the battle is that I don't even know how frame the questions that I should be asking, so I don't know even what to ask.)
The arrival of the "services" concept in cf-3 sounds absolutely right and good, and makes better sense, as a higher-level abstraction, in many cases than dabbling the a service's underlying processes. But then the documentation leads me to believe that "services" is not available for me in the current community edition. (I'm familiar with some OSS products having commercial siblings, for instance CentOS/Redhat sendmail.org/sendmail.com. And I'm happy with that, usually because the commercial one is adding support; and where it is adding actual functionality, that tends to be relatively at the edges rather than in the core. In "cfengine" it struck me that this potentially excellent "services" concept felt core (hence, OSS). especially as it is simply another subpoint in simply another subsection of the documentation: Ref Manual 7.15.) Anyway, I'll see what I can do with processes. And if there is an RPM of the new "process_stop" under "-n" fix, I'll test that. And I'll try to come up with some well-framed questions, and positive suggestions for documentation. Thanks. -- David Lee Mark Burgess wrote: > David, > > if by open source you mean "free beer" then, your worst fears are > confirmed. There is a paid version of cfengine, and it is better than > the free one! (The audacity!) However, it is still apparently free to > let off steam, which seems to be your main aim here. > > In fact services were introduced for the Windows version, and have not > yet been implemented on Unix at all (since one has a perfectly good > processes abstraction). The error message as such is misleading, since > it is the Windows version of Cfengine which is Nova only. I expect you > find that more acceptable. > > Mark _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
