cfengine

Of course they had forgotten to delete the ipv6 key from cfengine, so my machione couldn't download all its config via cfengine after the installation.

The joy of computers. magnio 2007

I got installation media and they deleted the machine key from cfengine.

The joy of computers. magnio 2007

Now cfengine has run for 15 minutes, it's supposed to take 20-30 minutes.

The joy of computers. magnio 2007

After a bit of running back an forth between me and system operations my office is on 4th floor, system operations are on 3rd floor, and the stairs are not exactly straight outside my door they deleted the cfengine key, and I was able to run cfengine to get all the necessary configuration.

The joy of computers. magnio 2007

Now I am setting it up as a work laptop, with cfengine and some extra packages and stuff except it looks like I have to bring it to work tomorrow to fix it.

The laptop is working again. magnio 2007

In the afternoon we had a cfengine course, mainly about the setup at work, which was interesting.

Work&beer magnio 2006

We have a decent system for unattended installation and configuration of our servers, and most changes on them are done via cfengine.

Sleepy... magnio 2006

It's made compulsory to attend this course once a year to keep access to the config system, now the challenge is to give meaningful courses to all participants, including those ho have hardly used a version control system, let alone a configuration management system, and those who has written most of the local hooks in our cfengine configuration.

Almost weekend! magnio 2006

I'll probably use cfengine for the roll-out, by using a unique class name and only define members of the class on the command line of cfagent running locally on each server.

Sleepy... magnio 2006

Mark Burgess, who developed cfengine, said in Login magazine, "Always let your tool do the work."

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