Re: Cfengine development

[Mark . Burgess]

On  2 May, henken wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
>>
>> I don't understand the problem you mention. The only difference between
>> pushing and pulling as far as a host is concerned is perhaps a half hour
>> (a difference of scheduling). But pushing would break with fundamental
>> principles of freedom and security. Not sure what version you are
>> using, but I don't see why you can't just use cfrun to effect
>> a change immediately if you need to.
>>
>> Mark
>>
> The issue I have come across is that I am generating new config files and
> have no way other than nfs to have all of the remote machines see the new
> config files. Is there some way to have cfrun 'pull' an arbitrary list of
> files so that it can run cfengine on them?
> 
> Nic
> 

Of course, this is trivial. The only possibly unexpected side effect
is that the updated files don't get run until *next* cfengine
invocation - so you wait half and hour or something.

 copy:

  /masterfiles dest=/cfinputs server=master r=inf

This is necessary so that cfengine is always executing a consistent
configuratinon.

Mark

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