Actually, I can just stop talking at this point, as Justin just reads my thoughts and a nswers so eloquently! Thanks, Justin.
Justin Lloyd wrote: > Cfengine 3 is young but I think that with a strong community, over time > the COPBL will develop into something like what you're describing (or > something more grassroots could emerge, much like CPAN did). > > As for the language, it's different because it's not a programming > language but a platform-independent state definition language, > basically, and to the best of my knowledge (which is patchy atm) there > isn't much else out there for describing Unix system configurations. > It's not an easy thing to do. > > -----Original Message----- > From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org > [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:50 PM > To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org > Subject: Re: Directory permissions, and multiple body bundles. > > 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
