Re: What SVN hooks do you use in pre-commit / post-commit?

f any of you have smart solutions > to this peer review problem. If you need a workflow like that you probably want to restrict direct commit access to the 'approved' branch and have an authorized person do the merges to it. There's nothing inherently wrong with having things pen

Re: Host inventory (Was: Machine types)

don't mind yet-another-agent running on every machine, ocsinventory-ng does a decent job as a host inventory system and has a configurable way of handling host name or IP changes (track by bios serial number, nic mac addresses, etc.). And if it doesn't do exactly what you

Re: Purchasing Nova (was Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Please add full syslog support to community edition v.3)

On 9/22/2010 2:31 PM, michoski wrote: > On 9/22/10 12:16 PM, "Les Mikesell" wrote: >> Well, no. I don't consider reading and sometimes responding to things >> on a mail list as being fed. Or that I have anything to lose from >> having an opinion that diffe

Re: Purchasing Nova (was Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Please add full syslog support to community edition v.3)

thing to lose from having an opinion that differs from yours. So far I don't think cfengine does what I need but it is interesting enough to watch. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Purchasing Nova (was Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Please add full syslog support to community edition v.3)

nity support and make you expect to hit a dead end with the free version. I'll point to opennms again as an example. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Purchasing Nova (was Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Please add full syslog support to community edition v.3)

ing? I'll second this request. I always assume that if prices aren't published I can't afford it - and it makes me wonder what else the company is hiding. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-c

Re: Cfengine Help: package downgrade doesn't work with yum

. The yum version in CentOS doesn't handle it at all - and you have to be careful about yum removes taking large numbers of other packages as dependencies. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Basic string replacement

t know what to do with them. If you aren't already working that way in other languages it isn't because the languages can't accommodate it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Is it possible to make sure /etc/fstab mount points stay mounted with cfengine?

engine v2? Can it be done in > cfengine v3? If making sure directories stay mounted properly is not > possible I will write my own script to do it, or look into alternative > configuration management systems. The script command to do that, at least in linux, is just mount -a --

Re: Basic string replacement

ts of a list of parameters - and what happens (when/how/whether something is done) is left up to the library. Cfengine may omit any other way to do things, but it can't change the way computers work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: editing old school cron tables

;crontab filename" to re-install, 'crontab -e" to edit/reinstall interactively. That (maybe) avoids some race conditions and notifies the daemon of the change. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list

Re: Basic string replacement

On 3/2/2010 11:28 AM, Daniel V Klein wrote: > > Cfengine is not a programming language - it may have some language-like > features, but it is not a programming language. How can something that controls what a program does not best be understood as a programming language? -- Les

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

ving a hard time seeing past that to where it becomes a net win, especially in our environment of frequent application upgrades and network interdependencies that it doesn't look designed to handle. But maybe I'm just over-analyzing. Much of the theory does sound good. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

with cfengine v1, would most of my code still be running today? If that's not the case historically, should I expect it going forward any more than I should for python? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list He

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

ervice. If every machine's load (connection count, etc.) doubles at the same time it's a problem but if a few machines/apps are down, the fact that the load goes up on their counterparts is expected. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

on of whether the language that you imply has to be specialized for this job actually imposes constraints on the policies it can implement - or makes some difficult to express. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

ntrigued at some of the concepts here, but some things aren't assumptions, they are just facts. And I want the program to work for the humans, not the other way around. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

es...). Suppose you need to work with a process that exposes its status with xml over http (increasingly common around here). Do you have to write your own http and xml handling packages to manage it - or shell out to perl anyway? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles.

ibrary of code where someone else has already done pretty much anything you might want, and I could see how you were supposed to integrate different components, but so far I'm missing the big picture. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: Email notification of repairs

with an IM client when/if you are interested and not have to clean up a mailbox when there has been a lot of output. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: starting with v3?

have had to go through this planning exercise before choosing the tool to best manage it. I can see from cfengingEnterprise.pdf that there is a concept for splitting responsibilities across teams but don't see any real mechanism for making that happen. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: starting with v3?

mbers that have passed QA? If the operation people have to learn a programming language it isn't going to be a good fit - or if developers can affect more than their own app. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: starting with v3?

is there a way to evaluate the additional functionality of the Nova version before purchase? Also, is there a way to schedule changes across a set of machines such that they happen within a small time window but sequentially, stopping if any failures occur. -- Les Mikesell les

starting with v3?

I'm having a little trouble getting started with cfengine v3. Is the source supposed to build on windows or are there binaries somewhere for evaluation? -- Les Mikesell lesmiks...@gmail.com ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfe