Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: cf_promises_validated : bug 1258 Author: nickanderson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,27307,27603#msg-27603
davidlee Wrote: > Neil, you say "For small sites, don't even bother > with cf_promises_validated." But the only place > it seems to be mentioned is in "failsafe.cf". > But "failsafe.cf" is critical to the self-recovery > of cfengine after various failures. It somehow > feels wrong and scary that mere mortal ordinary > end-users such as me should be going anywhere near > its insides. Is "failsafe.cf" clearly documented > anywhere? An end-user with a central hub and many > clients could get themselves into a lot of trouble > if they make a mistake in "failsafe.cf", couldn't > they? Shouldn't we regard it with a "Beware! Here > be dragons" mindset? And so not touch it at all? I don't know that failsafe.cf is documented elsewhere, but the policy itself provides the specifics. Minus documentation detailing the gory details of what constitutes am_policy_hub and when cf_promises_validated (these I think are clear now, just still missing in the documentation, unless of course my explanation is erroneous) is updated its actions should be clear. Its basic purpose is to pull updated policy, its separate so that you aren't editing it often, I don't think that precludes us from editing it at all. Though It would be nice if it were made more modular and there were less guts digging we had to do to flip certain behaviors on or off. > Nick: you mention "policy_server.dat". Is this > documented at all in the cfengine manual? I don't > see it. That said, in my particular case I've > found the file, and I think I've now got a clearer > picture what might be going on in our machine > cluster. Can I simply adjust the file's contents > (and perhaps restart cfengine on such machines)? > Or do I need to re-bootstrap? (What list of > actions does bootstrap perform? Again, the > documentation seems sparse.) I don't see any mention of policy_server.dat in the reference manual currently. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
