Re: CFEngine Help: update.cf: multiple "copy_from" servers

2011-08-23 Thread David Lee
nd-user, ought to be able to rely on the provided "update.cf" already to have the structure and flexibility to handle multiple servers. Instead, it is actually programmed against this! I'm happy to submit bug reports. Indeed, I'

Re: edit_files: delete_line and insert_lines sometimes give different results in static environment

2011-03-15 Thread David Lee
one file, as an atomic action, may also be highly desirable. (Indeed, my phrase "highly desirable" might, in some circumstances, need to be read as "essential".) Anyway, thanks for the attention and replies. -- David Lee Mark Burgess wrote: > Thanks for reminding me about

edit_files: delete_line and insert_lines sometimes give different results in static environment

2011-03-14 Thread David Lee
to the CPAN/best-practice question.) If this is a known bug, that's OK; just let me known its status, please. -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield Park : Reading RG2 9AX : Berkshire : : tel:+44-118-9499 362 : email: david@ecmwf.int _

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Managing user accounts with Cfengine 3

2011-03-11 Thread David Lee
s writing local things might start adopting bad habits from those poor examples. So while a generally "open to all suggestions" policy would be great, there should be at least a small amount of gatekeeping by some of the established developers. -- : David Lee (ECMWF) ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Managing user accounts with Cfengine 3

2011-03-11 Thread David Lee
ples for our subsequent local development of other things. Is there mileage in future cfengine distributions including such a collection? If there was, then presumably several of us on this list might be able and willing to contribute into it (and, of co

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cfengine3 processes

2011-03-10 Thread David Lee
yway, I'll see what I can do with processes. And if there is an RPM of the new "process_stop" under "-n" fix, I'll test that. And I'll try to come up with some well-framed questions, and positive suggestions for documentation. Thanks. -- David Lee Mark Burgess

Re: Processes bug? [Was Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cfengine3 processes]

2011-03-10 Thread David Lee
igure, build, install stuff. But if, at some pre-release point, you happen to build a RH-5/Centos-5 RPM (I'm running "cfengine-community-3.1.4-1.el5"), I'll happily give that a go. (And I may be able also to do RHEL-6 by that time.) Thanks again. -- David Lee Mark Burg

Processes bug? [Was Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cfengine3 processes]

2011-03-10 Thread David Lee
David Lee wrote: > [...] > And now I find that the one major advance that, in the documentation, > had looked really promising, namely the concept of services, appears to > have been deliberately hobbled in the community edition. (I hope > someone can tell me it's not so

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cfengine3 processes

2011-03-10 Thread David Lee
mising, namely the concept of services, appears to have been deliberately hobbled in the community edition. (I hope someone can tell me it's not so.) Sigh. -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield Park : Reading RG2 9AX : Berkshire : : tel:+44-118-9499 362 : email: david

cfengine3 processes

2011-03-09 Thread David Lee
lack of symmetry seems strange. Why no "stop_class" (in parallel to "restart_class")? Is there a rationale behind it? Is that rationale documented? How does the end-user achieve parallel-looking (and associated clarity) start and stop procedures? --

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cfengine-3; controlling Redhat/CentOS "chkconfig"

2011-02-28 Thread David Lee
p services (Redhat/Centos "service XXX start"). Also there is analogous functionality on other OSes (Solaris-10 "svc" etc.). From that perspective, there is a parallel with package installation and removal. For packages there is already higher-level functionality in &quo

cfengine-3; controlling Redhat/CentOS "chkconfig"

2011-02-25 Thread David Lee
cedures. But what is the cleanest cfengine-3 way to manage "chkconfig XXX {on|off}"? The information isn't leaping out of the documentation. But a pointer to a suitable manual page might be OK for me. (Using "cfengine-community-3.1.4", by the way.) -- : David Lee : ECMWF (