On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Ian Blenke wrote:
<snip>
> Eventually, James Neal came along and opened my eyes to centralized
> systems management with a tool called cfengine. The cryptic syntax was a
> bit painful though, and we did find a bug that overwrote the /etc
> directory in 50 machines in the farm before we caught it (cfengine is
> much better now :)
>
> The terse syntax of cfengine, and its design mindset of "make everything
> this way" never really appealed to me. It does work well, though.
>
I'm not a senior admin (;-}), but I've had this problem for years. I
tried cfengine a couple of times, but there was one critical thing I
couldn't figure out how to make it do: edit a file in the middle.
That is, to make a change to the middle of a file. This comes up when a
distro changes config files. I think I'm remembering correctly, here. In
any case, that one thing prevented me from using it.
Paul
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