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Re: possible to undefine hostname class?
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Chip Seraphine |
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Re: possible to undefine hostname class? |
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Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:18:45 -0500 |
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Taking the conversation in a sharp left turn....
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 02:06, David Kewley wrote
> What Eric is doing is pretty cool. But I'm not going to use it, because I
> don't want to split the intelligence between my cfagent scripts and the cgi
> script. I want all intelligence in the cfagent scripts for simplicity.
FWIW, whenever I find myself in what I call "the authority problem", I usually
just use the best tool for the job (in Eric's case, a cgi probably written in
shell or perl) and then have *that* tool maintained by cfengine. For
example, the CGI could spit out results from a datafile that cfengine
assembles.
I figure my goal is not to have the cfengine interpreter do all the work
itself so much as to have a centralized point of authority; in other words, a
self-enforcing piece of documentation that I *know* is 100% right, because if
it was wrong it would go out and change the environment until it *was* right.