On 1 Nov 2010, at 07:43, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote:
> Forum: Cfengine Help
> Subject: Re: package mgmt with apt
> Author: joke
> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18977,18979#msg-18979
>
> There are pitfalls using apt or aptitude with cfengine. You need to make sure
> to di
I detect VMware by looking for the string VMware in the output of dmidecode.
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On 21 Sep 2010, at 21:12, Mathew Hennessy wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to guarantee changes to relevant fstab NFS mount flags
> when made in a body mount? So far, I have to umount the dirs and delete
> them from fstab on the client for a cf-agent run to repopulate fstab
> with the changed
On 20 Sep 2010, at 6:38 pm, Tim Cutts wrote:
>
> On 20 Sep 2010, at 6:22 pm, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
>>
>> Could be a libdb problem. Try deleting the db files.
>
> D'oh - found it; very close to the right answer! BerkeleyDB header files
> were the wrong
On 20 Sep 2010, at 6:22 pm, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
> Could be a libdb problem. Try deleting the db files.
D'oh - found it; very close to the right answer! BerkeleyDB header files were
the wrong version for the installed libraries. Quite why SLES didn't complain
about that I have no idea...
Has anyone managed to get cfengine 2 running on SLES11 SP1? Leaving aside that
I really should have moved to cfengine 3 by now, I'd like to get cfengine
working on SLES11, but it crashes and dumps core immediately. This is cfengine
2.2.8. cfagent backtrace looks like this:
(gdb) where
#0 0x
On 17 Sep 2010, at 10:59 am, Davide Brini wrote:
> Well, if my custom file is in place before the package is installed, could it
> be overwritten with the default one by the package installation? (I haven't
> tried to be honest)
That depends, I suspect, on how you invoke your package manager,
On 17 Sep 2010, at 10:35 am, Davide Brini wrote:
> I'm already doing that to determine if the package needs to be installed and
> the package manager invoked.
>
> But I also have other things that depend upon the successful installation
> (copying a custom config file, basically). Currently,
On 17 Sep 2010, at 10:27 am, Seva Gluschenko wrote:
> While I disagree with Mark about usefulness of exit status (at least
> of exit status 0 in this case), in case of packages, it's pretty easy
> to check some vital file for existence as I stated already. I use such
> a method to detect availabi
On 17 Sep 2010, at 10:15 am, Mark Burgess wrote:
> David, the problem is one of semantics. In bulk operations, some things
> succeed and some
> fail. You are entirely slave to the behaviour of the package manager, making
> it difficult
> to have a consistent behaviour that everyone can agree on
On 1 Sep 2010, at 20:07, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
>
>
> Someone else mentioned that dmidecode has the output, but a quick test
> seems to have found it unreliable since many of my systems were
> reporting 3 MHz. I wish! J
Let me guess - those CPUs are VMware virtual machines. I'd
On 31 Aug 2010, at 10:23 pm, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> Here’s an interesting question for Nova users and/or Linux experts. I have a
> number of measurements promises that extract information about a system and
> store that data in our asset database. However, if dynamic CPU throttling is
> enabled
I realise the chances of any help on this are slim with the current advice on
moving to cfengine3, but I don't have the resources to do that, and I've just
hit a bug in cfengine2 which is a royal pain, and I was hoping someone can help
me fix it if possible. Actually it's two things, one defini
On 30 Apr 2010, at 5:22 pm, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
> I think the issue is where Linux can support this many cores. My
> understanding was that
> the Linux kernel was limited to 8 cores, but this is only hearsay.
As others have said, Linux supports many many more cores than that, and has
done f
On 30 Apr 2010, at 4:06 pm, Paul Krizak wrote:
> Has anybody out there ever tried scaling up a cfengine server (v2.1 or
> v2.2) on a really big, fast server? I'm thinking on the order of 4
> sockets, 24 cores, and a 10Gbit NIC.
>
> This is to support a particularly massive (and temporary) flo
On 9 Mar 2010, at 9:49 pm, Niek Timmers wrote:
> Dear *,
>
> I am a student of the University of Amsterdam, currently enrolled in the
> System & Network Engineering Master program. At the moment I am doing a
> small project concerned Cfengine which involves looking into the
> usability of this s
On 5 Mar 2010, at 7:47 am, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Jessica Greer wrote:
>
>> Thanks to everyone for the responses - that's helpful. Tim, I
>> especially like your idea of mailing out diffs, so everyone stays in
>> the loop, and teammates don't have to aler
On 4 Mar 2010, at 4:45 pm, Jessica Greer wrote:
> Anyone want to share advice on using SCM/revision control software to manage
> Cfengine configuration?
>
> I've recently joined a group where several people will be editing inputs and
> masterfiles, and it'll be important to have a clear picture
On 9 Feb 2010, at 4:59 pm, John G. Heim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to configure our automatic linux install system (Fully
> Automated
> Install or FAI) to do a mimimal debian linux install and then to run
> cfengine to install all of the config files and additional packages. I
> already have
On 1 Feb 2010, at 5:47 pm, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> For those of you who are part of a team that manage a Cfengine-based
> environment, how do you prevent people from making local changes to
> things that are managed by Cfengine, thus causing local changes to get
> wiped out? For exa
On 1 Feb 2010, at 5:47 pm, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> * Change Control - well-defined dept/company procedures for
> change approval, and all changes to systems should be done only
> through
> Cfengine policy, never locally on any system
Change approval, if made an absolute blanket rule, can
On 26 Jan 2010, at 8:11 pm, Janet Bass wrote:
> Has anyone used Applescripts scripts in cfengine?
>
> I am not finding a lot of documentation about Cfengine and Mac OS X
You can make applescripts trivially executable from the command line,
just like any shell script, so you should be able to r
On 26 Jan 2010, at 3:13 pm, Andreas Dan Larsson wrote:
>
> I would recommend that you check if the install is successful and
> run aptitude update if its not. If a updated package is published
> since you ran "aptitude update" you will get a 404 on your request
> for the older version. I th
On 26 Jan 2010, at 2:41 pm, Nakarin Phooripoom wrote:
> Zypper and yum seem to check and update the latest list of packages
> every time it runs before installing any selected packages.
>
> Could we do something like this for Debian/Ubuntu?
>
> package_add_command => "/usr/bin/aptitude update &
On 26 Jan 2010, at 2:25 pm, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
> This seems reasonable. I am spoiled using zypper which does this
> automatically.
It's arguable that apt's separation of the two functions is sensible.
I have more than 2000 machines; and have already once been blacklisted
by one apt rep
On 21 Jan 2010, at 10:31 am, Erlend Leganger wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, in my cfengine v3.0.2 setup, /var/cfengine/lastseen is empty.
>> There is
> a /var/cfengine/cf_LastSeen.db which probably contains the same info
> for
> cf3, but that is not readily accessible to me - maybe I can crank up
> Perl
On 21 Jan 2010, at 9:00 am, Erlend Leganger wrote:
> I have played with cfengine for a while and set up an environment
> with about
> 20 client machines.One day /var/cfengine/inputs was empty on one of
> these
> machines. I don't know why and it was easy to fix, but I wasn't
> warned about
On 19 Jan 2010, at 4:19 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I'm trying to keep track of cfengine execution time, in order to
> monitor
> policy changes effect.
>
> The easiest way seems to add start/stop messages in the logs.
>
> If invocating cfagent from a cron task, it's quite simp
On 4 Jan 2010, at 3:25 pm, Tim Cutts wrote:
>
> On 4 Jan 2010, at 2:52 pm, nwat...@symcor.com wrote:
>
>> Yes. You can do this. Here is a recipe with CF version 2. You'll
>> have
>> to figure out the Cf 3 way but the principle is the same.
>> http:/
On 4 Jan 2010, at 2:52 pm, nwat...@symcor.com wrote:
> Yes. You can do this. Here is a recipe with CF version 2. You'll
> have
> to figure out the Cf 3 way but the principle is the same.
> http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html#SECTION00020
That method's a little unwie
On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:42 pm, Robert Markula wrote:
> which cause cf-agent to hang since the underlying process expects a
> user
> input. Looking at the processes, I can see that in the second line
> (see
> below), the quotes are missing around "--force-confdef" and
> "--force-confold":
>
> htt
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