Re: Querying clients

[Mark Burgess]

Exactly! There is no real risk with running cfservd everywhere as long
as you are cautious with the access control.

good luck and seasonal greetings!
M

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 13:22 -0800, Atom Powers wrote:
> Thank you Mark, sometimes the most obvious solutions elude us.
> 
> So what you would do would be to:
> 1. make sure cfservd is running on the "client"
> 2. create an admit section in cfservd.conf for the files you want to transfer
> 3. use a copy section with the server=client.name and dest=server.path
> 
> Correct?
> 
> On 12/20/05, Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> wrote:
> > Again - stop thinking of clients and servers as hosts. A server is
> > simply a particular role of a given host.
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 06:36 -0800, bern wrote:
> > > Ok, Gentlemen,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply. I understand there is no built-in way to query a
> > > client from cfengine.  I will try to find a way to do it from the
> > > different suggestions you made.
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Bernard
> > >
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