Re: there is no stupid question (so they say ;)

2006-04-13 Thread Brendan Strejcek
ADNET Ghislain wrote: > I have lot of little servers that are limited in their number of > process. What do you mean by "limited in their number of process"? cfengine uses a client-initiated (pull-based) architecture. For a good summary of that concept, see: http://www.infrastructures.org/bo

Re: there is no stupid question (so they say ;)

2006-04-13 Thread Atom Powers
You should be able to use cfengine without any persistant daemons. On 4/13/06, Ed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends on what daemon you mean. cfexecd can run as a daemon and > provides scheduling, like cron, for cfagent. Or, you can run cfexecd > from cron and not have it become a backgr

Re: there is no stupid question (so they say ;)

2006-04-13 Thread Ed Brown
Depends on what daemon you mean. cfexecd can run as a daemon and provides scheduling, like cron, for cfagent. Or, you can run cfexecd from cron and not have it become a background process (-F option). No daemon necessary there. cfservd is not necessary on the client side either. You lose t

there is no stupid question (so they say ;)

2006-04-13 Thread ADNET Ghislain
Hello, I am looking at cfengine and it seems to be very usefull in my case. I have a beginer's question that i cannot solve reading the website. I have lot of little servers that are limited in their number of process. Is it necessary to have a daemon running on the client side of cfengine and i