Warning: upcoming removal of Berkeley DB backend

2012-03-12 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Hello. Please note that upcoming 3.3.0 version of CFEngine will feature removal of Berkeley DB backend, which served as a default for a long time. There are several technical reasons for it: this backend is slow compared to other available ones and it is not reliable enough in multi-threaded e

CFEngine Help: Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-03-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Google Summer of Code 2012 Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25235,25235#msg-25235 Hi, This year we decided to apply for the 2012 Google Summer of Code. Here's our ideas page: https://cfengine.com/ideas-page As you probably know,

CFEngine Help: Re: Warning: upcoming removal of Berkeley DB backend

2012-03-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Warning: upcoming removal of Berkeley DB backend Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25234,25236#msg-25236 I've been looking at moving that way for a little while, but haven't quite found enough free time. So, I've got a couple of

CFEngine Help: Re: renicing a process

2012-03-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: renicing a process Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25092,25237#msg-25237 So, apparently this is a tad difficult, as "nice" and "priority" are not the same thing. Further complicating things, AIX and HP-UX have completely diffe

CFEngine Help: Re: Server load and client installation

2012-03-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Server load and client installation Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25171,25238#msg-25238 sreejithpoothu Wrote: --- > Hi tjavo87, > > Thanks for your information.Is there any f

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Server load and client installation

2012-03-12 Thread Nick Anderson
On 03/12/2012 04:58 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > It takes about 20 minutes to sync that directory. I think that's mostly > checksum calculation cost. > In contrast, an "svn update" of the same structure takes about a minute (no changes), and rsync generally > takes ~3 seconds if there ar

Re: Removal of BDB backend

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel Bidwell
Is the change of back end database for cfengine automatic for the deb appliances? Or do we have to change something for our virtual appliance? We have been keeping them very close latest releases as they come out. -- Daniel R. Bidwell | bidw...@andrews.edu Andrews University |

CFEngine Help: Getting a file timestamp

2012-03-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Getting a file timestamp Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25241,25241#msg-25241 Is there a built in way to read the time stamp of file into a variable? Similarly can the agent provide me with the timestamp of a remote file bei

CFEngine Help: Re: Warning: upcoming removal of Berkeley DB backend

2012-03-12 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Warning: upcoming removal of Berkeley DB backend Author: megamic Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25234,25242#msg-25242 I am testing TokyoCabinet on Solaris10/SPARC, and I think there will be a problem, at least using the 3.3.0a1 tarball. The