syncing files....

[John Gray]

Greetings,

We recently started moving as much as possible to cfengine.  My original 
 goal was to move everything I ever edit (at a system level) to be 
under cfengine's control.  I've found however that there's a fairly 
large class on things that I modify sometimes but the system maintains 
automatically in some regards.  /etc/passwd is a good example of this. 
I add users, etc.  The system writes back new passwds when the user 
changes their passwd.

Is there a facility for syncing files in cfengine (I haven't been able 
to find one).  So for example, when the passwd file has a passwd 
changed, cfengine would sync it with the masterfiles?

On a similair note, there some things I'd like to collect from the 
systems (their current package lists and kernel configs are two 
examples).  Is there a nice way to collect those things so I have a 
central store of them.  I want to make diaster recovery easier, in fact, 
that's largely my goal here, to be able to rebuild a system ASAP when a 
drive dies.  I could certainly write scripts to do this, but I'd rather 
not have too many independant system going if cfegine will handle it all 
for me.

Suggestions?

Thanks,

John

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John Gray                           gray@agora-net.com
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