Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2012-02-08 Thread Diego Zamboni
I agree this would make it more general. The book is in final draft form now, so I can't make any promises, but I'll see what I can do to incorporate this. If not, it can always be included in the next release of the book :) --Diego On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Nick Anderson wrote: > On 02/08

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2012-02-08 Thread Diego Zamboni
Bronto, Thanks for the nice words. The book is in final review at the moment and about to enter final production phase. I think the final version should be out around mid-march (maybe sooner). --Diego On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Marco Marongiu wrote: > Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2012-02-08 Thread Nick Anderson
On 02/08/2012 08:17 AM, Marco Marongiu wrote: > The sshd_config example is interesting, but I think it is not general > enough. In fact, it will actually break if the configuration includes a > "Match" conditional block. > > It would be definitely a double-plus for the book if it deals with such >

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2012-02-08 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 08/02/2012 14:13, Marco Marongiu ha scritto: > Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: >> Indeed the Early Release is out, it includes the first four >> chapters of the book, which are: Introduction, Getting Started with >> CFEngine, CFEngine Basics and Using CFEngine. > > I read

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2012-02-08 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: > Indeed the Early Release is out, it includes the first four chapters > of the book, which are: Introduction, Getting Started with CFEngine, > CFEngine Basics and Using CFEngine. I read chapters 3 and 4: congratulations. This is the tutorial

CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24278,24281#msg-24281 neilhwatson Wrote: --- > Who is listed at the reviewers of the Pakt book? N

CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24278,24280#msg-24280 Who is listed at the reviewers of the Pakt book? ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread Carl E. Ma
ait to see the complete book.  From: Mike Svoboda To: Mark Burgess ; "help-cfengine@cfengine.org" Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:32:00 AM Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine I reviewed a few chapters, and ask that they look at rew

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread Mike Svoboda
I reviewed a few chapters, and ask that they look at rewriting it months ago. It just posted a lot of config, without describing the design choices behind what they were doing. I also asked to have my name removed from the list of reviewers. I didn't want to be associated with it. Looking forwa

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Burgess
On 12/13/2011 03:47 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: > 2011/12/13 Ted Zlatanov: >> I reviewed some Packt books (SimpleDB, Cassandra, Perl, and other >> topics) and could not write too many positive things. Besides spelling >> and layout problems, the content was just not very good. So this is not >>

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread Christopher Browne
2011/12/13 Ted Zlatanov : > I reviewed some Packt books (SimpleDB, Cassandra, Perl, and other > topics) and could not write too many positive things.  Besides spelling > and layout problems, the content was just not very good.  So this is not > a problem with just the CFEngine book from them, in my

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-13 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:56:19 +0100 Nicolas Charles wrote: >> Check it out here http://www.packtpub.com/cfengine-3-beginners-guide/book NC> I've ordered this book a couple of weeks ago and start to review it, to NC> see if my team would learn from it. I really have mixed feelings about NC> th

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-12 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 12/12/2011 20:25, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: > Just FYI, as of today at least, the "AUTHD" code worked for the > ebook. (Previously it looked like it worked for the print edition, > but not the e-book.) I reported it last Friday, when I successfully bought it. Did my email arrive? I had

CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine Author: mikesphar Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24235,24268#msg-24268 Marco Marongiu Wrote: --- > Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-09 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: > The code is AUTHD, and it gives you 50% off the ebook version, and > 40% off the print version. Book available and bought :) Thanks Ciao -- bronto ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfen

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Carl E. Ma
: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine On 12/08/2011 09:27 AM, Marco Marongiu wrote: > Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: >> The code is AUTHD > > No luck with this one, too: "You did not meet the criteria for this > discount.". > > As O'R

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:27:45AM -0500, Marco Marongiu wrote: >Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: >> The code is AUTHD > >No luck with this one, too: "You did not meet the criteria for this >discount.". Same with the USENIX discount as well... -- Jesse Becker NHGRI Linux

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Nick Anderson
On 12/08/2011 09:27 AM, Marco Marongiu wrote: > Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: >> The code is AUTHD > > No luck with this one, too: "You did not meet the criteria for this > discount.". > > As O'Reilly support said, I'll wait for a few days and try again. Try ERR20 20% o

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: > The code is AUTHD No luck with this one, too: "You did not meet the criteria for this discount.". As O'Reilly support said, I'll wait for a few days and try again. Ciao -- bronto ___ Help-cfengin

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: > Thank you Marco for the mention. My pleasure :) > Indeed the Early Release is out, it > includes the first four chapters of the book, which are: > Introduction, Getting Started with CFEngine, CFEngine Basics and > Using CFEngine. Uh, fro

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Diego Zamboni
:36, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >> Forum: CFEngine Help >> Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine >> Author: zzamboni >> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24235,24237#msg-24237 >> >> Thank you Marco for the mention. Indeed the Ea

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Nicolas Charles
On 08/12/2011 14:36, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine > Author: zzamboni > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24235,24237#msg-24237 > > Thank you Marco for the mention. Indeed the Early

CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24235,24237#msg-24237 Thank you Marco for the mention. Indeed the Early Release is out, it includes the first four chapters of the book, which are

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-08 Thread Marco Marongiu
Hi! Il 07/12/2011 19:34, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto: > Packt Publishing has come out with a new book entitled "CFEngine 3 > Beginner's Guide". It is a step-by-step guide to setting up Cfengine > and fully automating the configuration and management of your laptop, > desktop, server, or main

Re: CFEngine Help: New Book on Cfengine

2011-12-07 Thread Nicolas Charles
On 07/12/2011 19:34, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: New Book on Cfengine > Author: NikhitaS > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24221,24221#msg-24221 > > Hey, > Packt Publishing has come out with a new book entitled "CFEngine 3 > Beginner's Gu