On Wed, 4 May 2005, Luke Youngblood wrote: > Excellent, thanks for your help. I was wondering one other thing: > > What is the benefit of launching cfagent from cfexecd using cron? The > reason I ask is that I think it might be much easier to execute cfagent > directly from a shell script, and then mail the output to myself. I could > strip out the stat messages inside my shell script, rather than modifying > the source code.
You could certainly do that, but this is the sort of thing that tends to: a) break in difficult-to-find ways (like if the program output changes) b) baffle the next sysadmin who comes along to maintain it > This would allow me to use the same Blastwave packages that I've been using, > without rebuilding from code every time there is a cfengine update. > > Could someone tell me what the advantages or disadvantages of doing this > might be? There are probably some subtleties, but roughly speaking the biggest wins from cfexecd come if you're running it in persistent/daemonized mode with a 'control: schedule = ( [time classes] )' -- - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://eric.explosive.net - - Personal colo with a professional touch - http://www.explosive.net - _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
