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Hi As I''m more familiar with cfengine and it''s way to split updates (in update.conf) from the actual grunt work (in cfagent.conf), I''m wondering how to best manage puppet and my manifests with puppet...? Should I define a puppet class that copy the puppet package (in .tgz format) and all the manifests to the client, and then have all my other classes depend on that (sort of what I do now, except that it...

...############# ## CFEngine Install ## ############################################################################### EOF rpm -Uvh http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/updates/rhel_5_32/cfengine/cfengine-2.1.22-1.el5.i686.rpm wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/cfagent.conf-O /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/update.conf-O /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf wget http://kickstart.sea2.jobster.us/kickstart/post-installs/common/cfengine/root-10.200.1.39.pub-O /var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-10.200...

At least it appears that way on my FreeBSD 8.1 system. This is probably unnoticeable in regular use but I happen to use CFengine(v2) for system configuration & monitoring. If it notices dovecot not running it tries to start it and hangs. I believe cfengine (cfagent) has created a pipe to monitor the start commmand's stderr and is waiting for this pipe to close. This never happens because the pipe has been inherited by dovecot which, in version 2, doesn't release stderr as part of its daemonization. Although cfengine could be more defensive, I believe...

Hi, I''m in the process of evaluating puppet and cfengine for a rollout on a mix of in-house servers and managed customer servers. I''ve always been a pro-cfengine man, and it''s already running on a small setup of 5 machines. But even though I have pretty clear idea of how I should proceed building the system, I''m intimidated by the vast amount of