Re: CFEngine Help: update.cf: multiple "copy_from" servers

2011-08-23 Thread Nick Anderson
On 08/23/2011 07:32 AM, David Lee wrote: > cfengine distributes an "update.cf". That ought to be high quality and > reliable. But what I find is that this DISTRIBUTED version seems not to > have been written with flexibility in mind. In other words, the example > code from cfengine, about its

Re: CFEngine Help: update.cf: multiple "copy_from" servers

2011-08-23 Thread David Lee
Sjoerd Oostdijck wrote: > On 8/22/11 10:36 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >> From the top-level, what I want is for "update.cf", when checking >> "/var/cfengine/inputs", to try one server, and if that times out, then to >> try another in the list. >> >> Now the "copy_from" compound body has a

Re: CFEngine Help: update.cf: multiple "copy_from" servers

2011-08-22 Thread Jesse Becker
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:41:30PM -0400, Sjoerd Oostdijck wrote: >On 8/22/11 10:36 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >> From the top-level, what I want is for "update.cf", when checking >> "/var/cfengine/inputs", to try one server, and if that times out, then to >> try another in the list. >> >>

Re: CFEngine Help: update.cf: multiple "copy_from" servers

2011-08-22 Thread Sjoerd Oostdijck
On 8/22/11 10:36 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > From the top-level, what I want is for "update.cf", when checking > "/var/cfengine/inputs", to try one server, and if that times out, then to try > another in the list. > > Now the "copy_from" compound body has a "servers" which takes a list, a