Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: sauer
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23972#msg-23972
zzamboni Wrote:
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> You are right - I was thinking of the regular
> update process,but
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23971#msg-23971
You are right - I was thinking of the regular update process,but the initial
bootstrap seems to be hardcoded.
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Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: sauer
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23970#msg-23970
zzamboni Wrote:
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> But the directory from where the files are
> fetched is determined
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23969#msg-23969
The host to use for the policy hub is set using the --bootstrap option, and the
"somewhere persistent" is the /var/cfengine/policy_serv
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: sauer
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23968#msg-23968
Looks pretty non-overrideable, based on bootstrap.c. I suppose that fetching a
remote scalar would not be something I should look for in t
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: sauer
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23967#msg-23967
I'm not sure I'm following this. Are you saying that the directory from which
the clients pull is configurable by adjusting a variable in
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Finding the current user running cf-agent
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23960,23966#msg-23966
Mike, you are correct, this works fine.
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Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23965#msg-23965
You could bootstrap the policy hub, then edit the files in
/var/cfengine/masterfiles and /var/cfengine/inputs to change the path (in the
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Finding the current user running cf-agent
Author: mikesphar
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23960,23964#msg-23964
Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't something like this work?
vars:
"env_user" string => getenv("USER","20");
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Subject: Re: Finding the current user running cf-agent
Author: sauer
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23960,23963#msg-23963
You could check $(sys.workdir); if it's /var/cfengine, you're root. Otherwise,
it's .cfagent under the homedir of the user. Depend
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Bootstrap from alternate location?
Author: sauer
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23962,23962#msg-23962
So, the bootstrap functionlaity looks interesting, but I'm hesitant to have to
create /var/cfengine/masterfiles on my policy masters. I tried
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Finding the current user running cf-agent
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23960,23961#msg-23961
Hi Matthieu,
I don't think there's a function or variable for this. You could use something
like this:
"cur_user" string =
I am looking for a way to get the user currently running cf-agent, but I
can not find any sys variable on function related to this in the
documentation.
Is there a "standard" way to get it ?
Thanks in advance,
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