strategy failing

Hi everyone, I'm getting following errors from some of my Mac clients running Tiger and cfengine 2.1.20 (I think) cfengine: Unable to look up IP address of $(policyhost) cfengine:: gethostbyname: Invalid argument cfengine:: Failed to copy configs: failover to newton-pc.uncc.edu I don't get this

Re: help with cfengine for account management in very large environments

hi there, Yes, it does sound daunting. I would recommend the following, set up LDAP or establish an ideal master passwd file first. I would recommend LDAP. Give each user an account, 1person=1 account. for root access use sudo. that's just good practice. You will need to have both implementat

how to ensure copy of a complete folder from slave before shellcommand

hit master on the update cycle and a slave on the cfagent.conf cycle. Please let me know if this doesn't make sense. Anyways, back to compiling the latest cfengine as a Mac universal binary. Fun, fun, fun! :-S Thanks, Jason Edgecombe ___ Help-c

Re: How to choose policyhost based on class?

Jason Edgecombe wrote: Tracy R Reed wrote: I am using cfengine 2.1.16 on CentOS 4.3. I have machines on a local 192.168 network and machines with public ip's outside of our local network. I would like to be able to manage all of the policy from one place and keep all of the mac

Re: How to choose policyhost based on class?

Tracy R Reed wrote: I am using cfengine 2.1.16 on CentOS 4.3. I have machines on a local 192.168 network and machines with public ip's outside of our local network. I would like to be able to manage all of the policy from one place and keep all of the machines consistant both inside and out. It

Re: cfengine and NAT

Brendan Strejcek wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: What problems will I face when having cfengine clients behind NAT talk to a cfengine server on the public network. http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#SkipVerify Thanks! That should do

cfengine and NAT

Hi all, I looked on the cfengine home page, but I don't see any documentation on the issues that happen when using cfengine when NAT and a firewall is involved. I read the firewall document, but that looks more like a non-NAT firewall arrangement. What problems will I face when having cfengi

Re: support for --without-berkeleydb

Mark Burgess wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: John van Zantvoort wrote: On 4/5/06, *Mark Burgess* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Do you have a credible alternative to Berkeley DB? I also have great trouble with it in svn, but never with cfengine.

Re: support for --without-berkeleydb

John van Zantvoort wrote: On 4/5/06, *Mark Burgess* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Do you have a credible alternative to Berkeley DB? I also have great trouble with it in svn, but never with cfengine. Although I'm not a C-coder, maybe making the DB-API a seperat

Re: cfexecd question

Brian E. Seppanen wrote: When cfexecd -F is run from cron does it first execute update.conf and then run cfagent.conf after that? Yes. In fact, it's almost always the case, even when running straight cfagent. The only times I can think of that this would not happen are when running cfagent

Re: Large installs of cfengine?

Mark Burgess wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi, I'm doing some research for a presentation at work. I would like to know what institutions are running at least 500 cfengine-managed hosts. I'm especially interested in educational institutions. Would volunteers please specify how

Large installs of cfengine?

Hi, I'm doing some research for a presentation at work. I would like to know what institutions are running at least 500 cfengine-managed hosts. I'm especially interested in educational institutions. Would volunteers please specify how many hosts are cfengine-managed? Please let me know if I

Re: Professional support for cfengine

Hi, I'm doing a cfengine presentation for some of our managers next week. I would love to be able to include a short list of companies that can provide commercial support. I work at UNC-Charlotte. If any company would be able to deliver support in Charlotte, NC USA, please let me know. Sco