Fellow SysAds etc.-
First, I'd like to make sure you are all aware of the Configuration Management
Summit next week in Boston on June 24 (details are at
http://www.usenix.org/events/config10/). The first Configuration Management
Summit aims to bring together developers, power users, and new ad
In bcfg, this is trivial to do.
Set up a bcfg cron run to have it processes only 1 bundle
bcfg2 can take a -b flag to only process
a particular bundle. That bundle (included in the config all of the time)
could render like:
The action will only fire when the timestamp file has changed.
"Pa
Hey, Paul. I re-posted your question to the Cfengine mailing list.
Here are two answers:
a) There is a component in Cfengine 3 that's like a "do it now" button,
it tells the cfengine clients to pull down the latest policy from the policy
server and execute it: cf-runagent. You run that on the p
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Paul DiSciascio wrote:
> I'll try to keep this from getting too religious:
>
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of
which is "never get involved
in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this:
"Never ask a broad con
I'll try to keep this from getting too religious:
There is no way that root ssh access is going to fly in my environment (even
with forced commands), which means I'd be looking at piecing together something
that uses ssh and sudo to accomplish this. This has the obvious drawback of
now being d
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Paul DiSciasio wrote:
> So what I'm looking for is something that allows my clients to run in
> dry-run mode most of the time (reporting back to me which things need to
> be changed, but not taking any action), and then let me send a message to
> them when it's ti
Greetings everyone. I have a question about everyone's favorite topic:
configuration management. I hope this has not been posted before (i did
check the archives). I apologize if it has.
I'm trying to figure out how to implement something with a sort of "hybrid
no-op" mechanism. I've been doing
