I don't see how this could scale.  Even a small policy can have dozens of 
promises.  A email for each one would just flood my mailbox.

> For example, if I have a promise to ensure that a Solaris system?s 
> hostname is in /etc/nodename, I should write the promise so that it 
> doesn?t do anything if the file is correct, rather than just 
> recreating the correct file every time the agent runs, regardless of
> whether the file?s contents are already correct.

You've lost me here.  If /etc/nodname has the correct contents Cfengine 
will not recreate the file it will do nothing.  This is normal.

Sincerely,
--
Neil Watson
416-673-3465




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