Re: Other possible cfengine weak areas?

[Mark . Burgess]

On 22 Jan, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Systems Administrator wrote:
>>-     Network interface setup.  I wanted to be able to set up multiple
>>      virtual network interfaces with different IPs, based on the
>>      primary IP.  I integrated this into the Package Management
>>      software above, since it already had a hosts table, and just
>>      needed an Interfaces table
> 
> I did this with a hideous amount of editfiles which I should probably
> script; it's very prone to errors and generates a lot of stress when
> people edit.

interfaces: ?

> 
>>-     Service Management.  I wanted something that would do the
>>      following pseudocode:
>>      if(! service started) { start service }
> 
> I use a combination of processes: and shellcommands to check if the
> daemon is running, and if not define a class to restart it and do a
> chkconfig on.
> 

Restart in processes?

M

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