similar to: Puppet and Laptops

I would like to have packages installed either in the early morning or whenever I manually choose to do so on a particular machine. I am trying to convert my existing configuration from cfengine so in that tool I had something like: packages: Hr03|ManualRun:: <package installation commands> This basically says to install packages if it''s either 3:00-3:59am or if

Hey folks, I have a problem with the definition of a variable of type slist in CFEngine on # uname -a ; cat /etc/redhat-release Linux policyhub.example.com 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 21:09:27 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) I'm not sure if its valid to ask CFEngine questions on this mailing list, but as far as I'm running on

I have found a few issues with puppet and the up2date provider (version 0.22.4) that I''d like to run by those who use up2date (to see if others are experiencing the same issues). 1. Puppet doesn''t seem to find the latest updates of packages that are already installed. In looking at "/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/up2date.rb", I found that

Is there an equivalent to cfrun in puppet. On the cfengine master you can do the command cfrun <hostname> which allows you to tell the cfengine client to run. This is useful for immediately pushing changes out immediately (or telling the client to pull). Chris

Greetings, Our environment consists of about 600 Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and soon 6 servers. We use cfengine 2 currently, but plan on migrating to puppet. Right now, we have our root-owned cfengine client running every 15 minutes from cron contacting a single cfservd server. Additionally, our employees start their own cfengine and puppet instances on on some servers running under

Please excuse me if this has been covered, but I just noticed something odd with samba 2 beta 1. If I use smbclient to connect to a passworded resource on a win machine (I've tried it with 98/95) and I just hit enter for the password, it lets me in. No questions asked. So, I pretty much have unlimited read access to stuff I should not be able to get to. Best Regards. If this is the wrong

I know this is a basically meaningless milestone, but for some reason it means something to me. For the first time (as far as I know), #puppet on irc.freenode.net has more users than #cfengine: 21 vs. 19. Admittedly, that''s a low user count for #cfengine, but I''ll take it. :) -- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or

Hi Luc, do you know if Ticket #743 will be solved in the next release ? it''s a trivial change of command line option in the provider from --show-available to --showall, --show-available does not list installed packages so you cannot upgrade a package ( if allready installed and a new version comes the provider will not see it rendering the ensure=> latest useless). It could be

Hello, I''ve recently begun looking at Puppet as an alternative to Cfengine and I have a couple of questions. 1) Besides the information posted on the Puppet website, are there any critical differences between Puppet and Cfengine? 2) Does Puppet allow for client-specific file text manipulation. For instance, in Cfengine I can add a line of text to a file if the line doesn''t

Anyone ever implimented cfengine on 4.x ? I am just looking for background and if there are any traps to fall into? thanks

Hello, we run approximately 400 Centos servers at our company. We use cfengine for configuration management. I am looking for some documentation to do patching including kernel patches. I was thinking of just having each host run yum update via cfengine but not sure if there are any gotchas there? Should I just do yum update? or should i exclude the kernel and be more careful with those? how

The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. Not installed by default. So, I'm hunting that one down. Nate, what did you wind up doing?? Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father,

It would be hard to use ansible, cfengine or whatever while there no IP address on the new VM..... On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:47 AM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: > On 2016-11-07 14:35, Bernard Fay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have a virtual environment based on XenServer. In this environment I > > defined a template for CentOS 7 servers. > > > > I

I have a SuSE 9.0 linux box which I try to setup as a printer server (cups). I try to connect from a Windows XP home client. Log file: [2004/02/21 15:31:29, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388) Unable to get printer status for ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d} - client-error-not-found [2004/02/21 15:31:29, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252) notebook1 (192.168.0.15)

Hello All, I have been tasked with getting some configuration management system running at work. We have about 20 web servers running (some virtual and some physical), and we are trying to come up with a tool that will assist setting up new boxes as we bring them online, as well as maintaining existing systems when changes are necessary. After spending a little bit of time searching around

Is anyone working with cfengine v3? It looks like it has some interesting design changes and a commercially supported windows version now. Can anyone share real-world experiences? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

I need to know how to do the following in puppet. Say I have three classes, (c1,c2,c3) that are not related. These classes could be considered "attributes" that may or may not apply to an individual host on my network. I need to know how to write a manifest, or series of manifests to allow me trigger a command (call it ''foo'') if all three classes are defined. I also

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Meikel wrote: > Hey folks, > > I have a problem with the definition of a variable of type slist in CFEngine > on > > # uname -a ; cat /etc/redhat-release > Linux policyhub.example.com 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 21:09:27 > UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) > > I'm not sure if its

I am trying to a install Centos 5.1 32-bit Xen HVM DomU onto a Centos 5.1 64bit DomU with the default xen installed and the kickstart hangs at random points during the install process. Sometimes retrieving the image, sometimes formatting the filesystem, sometimes installing the packages,etc. I tried upgrading to xen 3.2 and encounter the same problem before rebuilding back to stock Centos 5.1

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