[PLUG] Two Strange Problems -- FIXED

[Paul Heinlein]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

>>  Creating a PXE installer instantly gets them the ability to be
>>  accepted into the business market. Consider something like Rack
>>  Space, they need to re-image 1000 machines at once and they have
>>  hypothetically chosen to use Slackware. Now all they need to do in
>>  order to quickly and efficiently image those machines is turn them
>>  on and PXE boot, catch a standardized install image thats
>>  automated and they're good to go.
>
>  A-ha! Similar to Red Hat's cfengine, I guess? (Paul will certainly 
> correct me if my recollection is hazy.) But, what does this have to 
> do with the init script style? I don't get it.

I'll take that lead to offer two corrections:

1. cfengine isn't meant for installing or imaging systems; it's for
    defining and maintaining "normalcy" on systems already up and
    running.

2. cfengine runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, *BSD, and probably
    several other *nix operating environments. It has no ties to
    Red Hat; I know there are no official cfengine packages in Red Hat
    Enterprise Linux (3, 4, or 5), nor do I recall ever seeing any in
    Fedora Core.

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