Re: collecting files from remote servers

[Mark . Burgess]

You will be able to do this with a "remote method" in 2.1.1

M

On 25 Nov, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I'm using cfengine to deploy an IDS/file integrity checker (samhain) to our
> servers.  This roll out requires a series of steps:
> 
> 1) copy files from the master server to the clients
> 2) run some configuration stuff on the client
> 3) copy one file from the client back to the master server.
> 
> The third step is where I'm having problems.  As far as I can see, there is
> no way to push a local file to a remote server short of resorting to a
> shell command like scp or rsync. 
> 
> The closest I've come to a solution so far is to call cfrun on the local
> client and use -D<some special class> to execute cfagent on the master
> server.  
> 
> I was hoping someone on the list had come up with a better way to do this.
> 
> --kurt



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