Les, this is what you are looking for, I believe http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000021.html
It is a revamp of something we've tried before, but now we have the Cfengine company backing up the development, and much improved software. Cfengine looks different from other languages because it is not like other languages. It has been very carefully researched to solve the specific problems of sysadmin automation in a repeatable and maintainable way. It was important for us to design a tool with as few limitations as possible first (good technology has to be the starting point), and now we are moving towards a number of ways to make it easier to use. Others have gone the other way, trying for simplicity or familiarity first, and they are already getting into trouble. M Les Mikesell wrote: > On 2/9/2010 4:23 PM, Justin Lloyd wrote: >> In a small team of admins, like mine, everyone will need to become a >> Cfengine admin and getting people accustomed to a particular model of >> system administration may find the transition to the Cfengine way of >> thinking could be a challenge. > > As someone just starting to look at cfengine, I really have to wonder > why it has a language unlike anything else and if it is worth learning > to write something that no one else will understand. It would go a long > way toward convincing me if there were something like perl's CPAN > library of code where someone else has already done pretty much anything > you might want, and I could see how you were supposed to integrate > different components, but so far I'm missing the big picture. > -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
