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
http://xkcd.com/705/
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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
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 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
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
LOPSA had good representation at SCALE.
A successful Scale University presence set up a repeat invite for next
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students about
getting the first LOPSA student chapter going. Cal Poly Pomona is a 21K student
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unix_fan wrote:
> Since volunteer time is precious, I want to make sure we also publicly
> acknowledged the significant amount of time that Aleksey Tsalolikhin spent in
> the booth with us. Aleksey also added 2.3 new LOPSA members to our community!
>
who is the 3/10's member? I'd like to shake
> From: Doug Hughes
> unix_fan wrote:
> > Since volunteer time is precious, I want to make sure we also publicly
> acknowledged the significant amount of time that Aleksey Tsalolikhin spent in
> the booth with us. Aleksey also added 2.3 new LOPSA members to our community!
> >
> who is the 3/
