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Re: How can I extend the types of configuration managed by cfengine?
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Daniel Pittman |
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Re: How can I extend the types of configuration managed by cfengine? |
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Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:34:14 +1000 |
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Frank Smith wrote:
> Have you considered placing your script (and any associated files)
> in the 'files' section to distribute it and using the 'shellcommands'
> section to control running it ? A module might be more elegant, but
> shellcommands is a quick and dirty way to integrate existing scripts.
Yes. This is perfectly possible and was what I initially considered.
I can do this, fairly trivially. It's the quick and dirty nature of it
that I want to avoid. I use cfengine so that I /don't/ write quick and
dirty scripts to do this and that. :)
Daniel
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