Re: Cfengine Installing Cfengine

[Mark . Burgess]

On 14 Oct, Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
> Does Cfengine need some other tool (such as SYSCTL) or script to install 
> Cfengine on multiple clients.  I am battling with this.  I have created an 
> install.conf 
> which creates /var/cfengine..., edits /etc/services, starts appropriate 
> daemons and copies binaries locally.  I would like to use this install 
> config file to install
> Cfengine on a test cluster of 3 to 5 machines.  I have successfully 
> installed on one machine using this config file.  Do i need to use another 
> tool to perform the
> install on multiple machines at once?  Please tell me this isn't so.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rasheda


I don't underdtand what you are asking. Why would cfengine need some
other tool? All you need is to execute some cfagent binary once at
installation and, if update.conf is set up, it should install itself.

M

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