Re: Newbie help with how to implement update and cfagent.conf files

[Tim Nelson]

On Sun, 15 May 2005, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

> If I have a policyt master, can I also treat it as a regular client?

        Yes.  I do this.

> In other words, I'd like to test out my cfengine implementation
> by telling the policy host to copy it's update.conf and cfagent.conf
> to another location on the same server.  For example, the
> update.conf, cfservd.conf and cfagent.conf files are all
> stored in /var/cfengine/masterfiles/inputs/ and I want to
> have the policy host copy the cfagent.conf file from
> there to the "standard" cfagent location of /var/cfengine/inputs
> where all my other clients will be storing the cfagent.conf
> file.  I just want the policyhost/cfserver to have the same
> client configuration as all the others.
>
> Does this make sense?  Hopefully I'll be able to answer these
> newbie questions soon...

	Yeah, I do something similar (although I store my master files in 
/usr/etc/cfengine, as per cfengine-masterconf (cf. 
http://arpmats.sourceforge.net/)).

        HTH,

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