RE: Turning off update.conf

[Steve Bergeon]

Why would you want to ignore update.conf? It purpose is to allow you to recover
from the distribution of faulty config files.

"Imagine what would happen if you made a mistake in the configuration, i.e. a
syntax error which got distributed to every host. Now all the hosts would be
unable to run cfengine, and thereafter unable to download a corrected
configuration file. The whole setup would be broken. To prevent this kind of
accident, a separate configuration file is used to copy the files and binaries
to each host. This configuration should be simple, and should almost never be
edited: they key word here is reliability."

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html#Building%20a%20distributed%2
0configuration


> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+sbergeon=encephalon.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-
> cfengine-bounces+sbergeon=encephalon.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Chip Seraphine
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:33 PM
> To: cfengine
> Subject: Turning off update.conf
> 
> 
> I am working out some ways that my cfengine setup can recover from
> having bad config files propogated out.  One thing that is hampering me
> is that while I can tell cfagent to run update.conf only (-B), I don't
> know of any good way of telling cfagent to ignore it.    Is there some
> good way of telling cfagent to just run as if there were no update.conf
> (short of making changes to the actual update file, such as chmodding or
> mving it?)
> 
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