Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 03:00 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > Which of the two do you prefer and/or recommend to a relative newbie at > > this? > > I'm looking for the least headache route that can do some of the basics > > that CFengine is supposed to do. I'd even take one with

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ric Moore wrote: Which of the two do you prefer and/or recommend to a relative newbie at this? I'm looking for the least headache route that can do some of the basics that CFengine is supposed to do. I'd even take one with a gui. Namaskar, Ric puppet has a much lower learning curve than bcfg

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 00:25 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > Thanks Nate. I'm googling for simple setups, found one that was SuSe > > oriented, another that is written for CentOS. The latter one being > > better. I'm still getting the "Deer in the headlights" syndrome, I'm not >

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ric Moore wrote: Thanks Nate. I'm googling for simple setups, found one that was SuSe oriented, another that is written for CentOS. The latter one being better. I'm still getting the "Deer in the headlights" syndrome, I'm not getting this: If that is the level of deployment you are at, I would

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:36 -0700, nate wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > >> The file that the document is probably referring to is root's crontab > > This looks informative: > > http://www.cfengine.org/AutonomicCfengine.pdf > > And of course the full reference guide > > http://www.cfengine.org/d

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread nate
Ric Moore wrote: >> The file that the document is probably referring to is root's crontab This looks informative: http://www.cfengine.org/AutonomicCfengine.pdf And of course the full reference guide http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html It'll take time to learn, though before y

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:55 -0700, nate wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > > That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the > > "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. > >

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread nate
Ric Moore wrote: > The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the > "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. > Not installed by default. So, I'm hunting that one down.

Re: [CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 15:23, Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > That doesn't exist. In RedHat/CentOS, this file is here: /var/spool/cron/root But you should not write to it directly, instead you should run the "c

[CentOS] cfengine and crontab

2008-09-11 Thread Ric Moore
The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. Not installed by default. So, I'm hunting that one down. Nate, what did you wind u