Perfection is only approached at the point of collapse...Entry no. Wednesday, Feb 28 1996 from host: dax
From: Mark.Burgess@iu.hioslo.no
Just to start the ball rolling....
From: thomas.milliman@unh.edu
Nice piece of work! Its amazing that more attention has not been given to this problem. Do you have a way of configuring printers. What I'm looking for is a way to customize printcaps so that each system knows which printers are local and which are on some other system. No need to respond if your too busy but it would be a nice feature. Thanks, Tom
From: buergin_d@gw2.admin.ch
I'am looking for a solution to manage our Oracle App. on different Servers. May be i've found it
From: ekline@hal.com
I think cfengine has many unique and fantastic features. I believe that it operates from the correct beginning principle which is a pull model rather than a push. For a few systems, pushing information and changes is fine. But this solution doesn't scale well. Where I work, we have over 1500 hosts registered, and pushing doesn't cut it. I want to say thank you for cfengine, for it's beginning to make my life much easier! I have also a note which I would like to add: I work for a company which produces 64-bit sparc stations (the first actually) and supports a 64 bit version of solaris. Either for better or worse the OS people have chosen sun4H and the indicator of a 64 bit OS on our 64 bit machine and sun4h as the uname indicator for a 32 bit OS on our 64 bit box. But the architecture (sun4m, etc.) class name is the lowercased version of the uname -m return! So, this in mind, I am taking it into consideration and have written a small bit of code which returns the number of bits OS you are running. With the new 64 bit OS's coming, and the old 32 bit ones sticking around (they're still plenty good), and perhaps 128 coming some day!, I was wondering if you thought that perhaps this additional class keyword code would be worthy of inclusion in an upcoming distribution? Thanks for EVERYTHING, Erik Systems and Network Architect
From: motd@iu.hioslo.no
We would be interested in a conference on automated system administration!
From: wjs@cs.duke.edu
An EXCELLENT program. I am about to implement it on our network. After that I will sit in my office and play on the web. Joe Shamblin wjs@cs.duke.edu
From: yvesp@neu.sgi.com
I'm always looking for new tools which will help me maintain 45 servers around Europe, I think this definitely might help. I've spent hours writing perl scripts which basically do in several hundred lines what this tool can do in quite bit less and in a much more readable bug less form. It's still lucking a few features, like more powerfull file editing (ok, I have weird needs), checksum integrity checks on files, remote distribution (possibly through secure channels) and several other things. This is definitely a great tool!
From: jmuscat@yorku.ca
A cfengine conference sounds interesting. I would be keen on attending it. As well I've talked to my boss and we'd be willing to provide space and facilities at York University (in Toronto) to host it. During the summer months we can provide accomodation at the residences on campus at very reasonable rates. If your intersted in taking us up on the offer give me a rough idea of the number of people attending and days so I can make further inquiries at this end.
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this book is absolutely marvelous
From: kondo@takaoka-nc.ac.jp
I am interested in cfengine and automated system administration conference. Our campus network is small, having a hundred clients and some 10 UNIX servers. We don't have specialist system admin- istrators, and would like to continue to do without them hereafter. So we are developing an automated SA manager which will execute cfengine on remote machines.
From: davidm@prism.kla.com
CFEngine is really getting there! A little more work and you might be able to go out as a consultant using CFEngine to set up systems around the world... :-)
From: gv@deselby.xs4all.nl
cfengine is very good. Thanks. When tidy is used to remove core files, shouldn't it check that they are actually core files (and not a text file named core) ?
From: misi@sbnet.ro
Many thanks and greetings for all of you who are writing free software. I´m writing from the APC (Association of Progressive Communications, http://www.apc.org) Europe Conference. Reading this page I realize that maybe the cfengine can be developed to be used in the future as an automatic sysadm for ordinary users too. This will allow to replace the Windows 95 and other related stupid products much more easier with Linux. A X-Window based version for installation and maintaining free Unix which can detect the existing hardware components, make the configuration of the system, build an appropriate kernel and maintain the system files can be of great help to make available the computer technology for everyone. Glad to read about GNU. Mihaly Bako StrawberryNet Romania