Actually, I think this is an excellent suggestion. Better to reset to a safe state (like Windows safe login) in case of serious error.
M On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 11:00 +0000, Marco van Beek wrote: > Hi, > > Just to add further confusion into the equation, I am managing ShoreWall > via CFEngine. If you get that wrong you can never undo the changes > because the client can no longer contact the server, so you have to > correct it manually. > > Perhaps one solution would be to look at a panic script that would run > in certain events. It would enable a user to write a cfengine script > that (for example, in my case) would disable the firewall, run > update.conf to download the latest cfengine files from the server, and > restart the firewall again. > > The other thing I have managed to do is to edit cfservd.conf in the > repository, with a configuration that denied all connections, and then > had to edit the live copy to get it all to work again (which was then > promptly overwritten by the bad version again. duh!). > > Regards, > > Marco. > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
