Re: Radmind vs CFengine

[Systems Administrator]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, John Sechrest wrote:

>  It would be a very good exercise (left to someone else who
>  can think it thru) to create a cfengine process/script
>  that mimics the radmind approach and then to do a comparision.
>
>  It may infact provide an entry way for people just starting
>  out into a using the system faster. The learning curve
>  on cfengine is steep enough that there is a group who
>  balk at it.

        I can relate to this -- I'm going to persevere, but if I had the
thing he's talking about, it'd be great :).  OTOH, I don't have time to do
it :).

>  Lots and lots and lots of simple templates would
>  help at one level, but the radmind approach is interesting
>  because it is a templating process in itself.

        Speaking of which, is there a central repository of sample
cfengine scripts?  CfPAN anyone?

        :)

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