Re: Cfengine Help: file_select in std lib and anonymous list

2011-05-12 Thread Jerome Baum
tch.*", "pca.*" } ), > What's the use case? i.e. do you really think it's better to pass an anonymous list, instead of giving that list a self-explanatory name? -- Jerome Baum tel +49-1578-8434336 email jer...@jeromebaum.com -- PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA

Re: the relation of entropy to anomaly detection - what does entropy mean here? how does this work?

2011-05-09 Thread Jerome Baum
asically how much "randomness" is available, which is very important for cryptographic systems -- such as SSL, SSH, and security in cfengine. You tend to get low entropy on server systems w/out keyboard and mouse to take entropy from. For further reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entr

Re: Time classes lifecycle index

2011-05-07 Thread Jerome Baum
hen define the class based on that. If the command is pure (as in "pure function") then it fits in with promise theory. Anyhow, this seems like a very academic discussion (which I am absolutely happy to have!) -- I don't see a practical use, for myself, for the life-cycle classes. --

Re: Time classes lifecycle index

2011-05-07 Thread Jerome Baum
fic reason for this choice or it is arbitrary because there had to be _some_ choice at all? -- Jerome Baum tel +49-1578-8434336 email jer...@jeromebaum.com -- PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA __

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Running a command just once.

2011-05-06 Thread Jerome Baum
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 18:49, Christopher Browne wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM, wrote: > > Forum: Cfengine Help > > Subject: Re: Running a command just once. > > Author: jeromebaum > > Link to topic: > https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21797,21800#msg-21800 > > > > All of these on