Hi, cfengine is a tool which helps you keep hundreds of separate and individual machines configuration the way you want from a central server. that way you can also easily restore the configuration whether you have had to reinstall one of the machines from scratch.
anyhow, cfgengine is considered a bit hard to set and configure. so you might want to look at a project called "puppet", it can achieve the same cause, but with a very intuitive configuration process. the idea behind puppet is that you say what you want to do and not how to do it. for example, if you want to define a user called "myuser" you will not copy the /etc/passwd file, or write a script which creates it using standard commands, instead you will write a small & simple manifest which says "hey... i want a user called 'myuser' with uid X and password Y", then you will bestow this manifest on the machines which you want to manage, and it will do the real scripting for you. you can do a very similar process with packages and almost everything you can think of. anyhow, i can go on blahing about puppet, but you asked about cfengine , so i'll stop here ;) - Noam On 6/3/07, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to understand whats so great about CFEngine compared to a normal scp of configuration files ? Whats the "real" intelligence of it? Has anyone here had experience with the application and will be willing to share ? Thank you, Maxim. (If someone gets this message twice, please grill the wasted bytes.). -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
