Re: cfengine runs every hour by default?

[Brendan Strejcek]

cmustard wrote:

> are there any consequences to disabling cfexecd and only running
> cfservd

That depends on your admin philosophy. Disabling cfservd (and not
running cfagent with cron) moves more towards a push model. See

    http://www.infrastructures.org/bootstrap/pushpull.shtml

for a quick overview of this debate. I (and many others) believe that
a cfrun-style (push) approach does not scale as well and is more error
prone.

> They both create automatic init scipts for themsleves, It seems odd
> that they would both be created if they were not both defintetly
> nedded

Note that cfengine proper does not do this. That was packaging policy
decided upon by some distributor. Mark only releases source.