Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: inserting lines into crontab Author: mikesphar Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23442,23472#msg-23472
All very valid points. My experiences are mostly in development and develop-in-production environments where I simply cannot take 100% control of everything because developers are allowed to make local changes/additions/deletions on the fly constantly. I want to use cfengine to express the rules/promises that I insist on being kept, but I also can't overwrite all the local changes that are happening constantly. What I do with cfengine has to try to merge nicely with everything being done locally. Obviously in cases where there are direct conflicts I want my cfengine promises to win, but I simply don't see how I could express all crontabs across all servers in one place. The sheer extra workload of managing, testing, and rolling out all those one-off changes every day would bury me. If one *can* commit to 100% central control over, say, root's crontab file, then I agree a single centralized set of edit rules makes a lot of sense. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
