Re: update.conf not copying cfagent.conf?

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

> > > > "Tim Nelson" <architect@webalive.biz> 05/18/05 4:50 AM >>>
> > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kelly Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Paul:
> > >
> > > Try this the first time you run it...
> > > cfagent -f /etc/cfengine/update.conf
> >
> >         Just a clarifying note that /etc/cfengine/update.conf
> > should be replaced with the location of his update.conf.  My
> > automatic setup puts update.conf into /var/cfengine/inputs
> > on each new machine, so I never have to specify the -f option.
> > Sure it gets overwritten on the first run, but that doesn't bother
> > me :).
>
> Right.  This was my attitude as well.  Although I'm a bit confused
> how cfengine would get update.conf to a machine where nothing
> is running yet.  If a machine is brand new to the network, is my
> only option to copy update.conf from the source policy master
> to the client manually?  At that point, I'm guessing if I have a
> entry in update.conf where cfagent is specified to start like so:
>
> processes:
>
>  new_cfenvd::
>
>    "cfenvd" signal=kill restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfenvd -H"
>
> cfagent should grab the cfagent.conf file from the policy master?
> Or, do I need to go read up some more?

	Hopefully my other post answered this question; if not, could you 
rephrase?

	Other options would be using an expect script to copy update.conf 
across, or using kickstart/jumpstart + a copy of update.conf.

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