> > I'm just starting to investigate SIS, so please bear with me if I don't > > grasp the entire thing just yet. > > > > Currently I'm using a home-brewed configuration management system. All of > > the install is done manually (yuck!) and then the CFILE program goes through > > and changes many configuration files to whatever is appropriate. > > > > My reading of SystemConfigurator has led me to believe that it can do basic > > configuration to handle network cards and the like, but doing more would > > involve writting a script to generate these files. Is that correct? I'd > > appreciate info or pointers to documentation on this. > > The way to this is install the node with > systemimager/systemconfigurator. So the node is up and running. When the > node boots then run your CFILE program to setup node the way you want.
Okay. I considered this but it would be nice to keep everything within
the same tool suite. Question: Would the rsync process not try to
overwrite the modified files?
Anyway... CFILE was written some 10 years ago by a friend of mine and
it's in need of being overhauled. I thought that maybe the overhaul
could be done as part of a larger project and thus be useful to more
people.
I'm curious what people's thoughts are on how CFILE works and how such
functionality could be included with SIS.
> What i always do is install the node with
> systemimager/systemconfigurator. When this install is completed the node
> boots and one of my init.d scripts calls 'cfengine' (www.cfengine.org).
> This will finish the configuration of the node.
We tried CFENGINE originally but found it lacking. It's good at what
it does, but trying to use it to generically modify configuration files
was painful at best. The new v2 does not seem to add much to that,
either. When we originally talked with Mark Burgess (auther of cfengine)
he stated that such was not the design goal of the program.
Brian
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