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Re: cfengine horror stories
From: |
Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: cfengine horror stories |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:11:03 +0100 (MET) |
A bug fix version (2.0.5pre2) is now available on the web site.
(www.cfengine.org)
Hopefully no one else has discovered this the hard way.
Mark
On 27 Nov, Nate Campi wrote:
> I was testing cfengine and grabbed a copy from sunfreeware.com, happened
> to be an old 1x version.
>
> I introduced an error into a tidy section, so that /tmp became //tmp in
> the config file. This caused cfengine to tidy the / filesystem,
> completely destroying the host.
>
> I've since pushed out the latest 2x version via a sun package I built
> myself, but I only have the agent/cfexecd running on a few
> non-production hosts. I'm thinking to starting cfexecd live on all my
> hosts and slowly building up the configs over time, and only introducing
> changes to the production systems after I've tested on a staging
> cluster.
>
> I think this will work fine, but I'm curious about two things:
>
> 1) is the parser issue fixed so that tidying //tmp won't tidy / ?
> 2) are there any other horror stories anyone can share that might help
> me avoid any other stupid mistakes?
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