Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]

2009-11-28 Thread Reini Urban
Andrew Schulman schrieb: It would be great to port Puppet to Cygwin. Puppet's scope on a Cygwin host is going to be more limited than on Linux, just because Cygwin's scope is limited. Puppet could easily manage Cygwin's file and services, but managing Windows files and services would take more

Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]

2009-11-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Shouldn't there have been an explanation of what Puppet is and why it is > useful somewhere above? Okay. Puppet is configuration management software. It allows a LAN administrator to specify sets of files, sofware packages, services, cron jobs, and so on, and the relationships between them, an

Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]

2009-11-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/27/2009 07:51 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Shouldn't there have been an explanation of what Puppet is and why it is useful somewhere above? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=puppet&l=1 -- Andrew DeFaria Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. -- Proble

Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]

2009-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:15:05PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >It would be great to port Puppet to Cygwin. > >Puppet's scope on a Cygwin host is going to be more limited than on Linux, >just because Cygwin's scope is limited. Puppet could easily manage >Cygwin's file and services, but managin

Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]

2009-11-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
It would be great to port Puppet to Cygwin. Puppet's scope on a Cygwin host is going to be more limited than on Linux, just because Cygwin's scope is limited. Puppet could easily manage Cygwin's file and services, but managing Windows files and services would take more work because the environm