Re: difficulties communicating between cfengine hosts (still)

[paul beard]

On Feb 14, 2006, at 5:04 PM, David E. Nelson wrote:

> I'd encourage you to not give up.  Because when you get it to work,  
> it's a FANTASTIC toolbox (IMHO of course ;).

Not giving up, just taking a break ;-)

I first heard about cfengine in 1999 or so when I worked in the web  
operations group at CNN.com. It sounded like a great approach to the  
problems we faced at the time. Then I left to join a startup on the  
West coast, and took the cfengine religion with me, but we never got  
to a stable enough footing to put it to use (you'd think it would be  
a challenge to burn through $10MM in 10 months, but it went pretty  
fast). Now, after a few years off, I am again working on the  
operations end of a startup and when 20+ machines get dropped into  
the mix, all needing some TLC, with more projected, cfengine looks  
like a great asset.

So I'm not beaten. Just biding my time for another attempt.

Thanks for the support.
--
Paul Beard
contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf

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