Re: Maintaining RC symlinks

[Chip Seraphine]

Ok.  Make that 'every permutation of service requirements', which is still not 
efficiently manageable in a medium-to-large environment.

On Monday 14 June 2004 07:56, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
> You don't have to do that for every host, if you manage to organize your
> servers neatly.
> 
> On Monday 14 June 2004 3:07 pm, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> > The only problem with that approach is that you'd have to build a custom
> > turnOffServices and turnOnServices string for every (or almost every) 
host,
> > which would be a real PITA in cfengine.
> >
> > Hmmm.  Although a module could do it pretty easily.......
> >
> > On Friday 11 June 2004 15:54, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> > > > I'm getting ready to write  a script for turning on and off SVR4-style
> >
> > start/
> >
> > > > kill symlinks to init.d scripts (think chkconfig, but less friendly).
> >
> > Before
> >
> > > > I reinvent any wheels, I was wondering if anybody wants to share any
> >
> > really
> >
> > > > clever solutions or ideas for adding/removing links...
> > >
> > > Maybe this is a cheap shot, but I figured if you're going to rely on an
> >
> > outside
> >
> > > script you might appreciate it anyway : (long lines broken)
> > >
> > >
> > > control:
> > >
> > >     actionsequence = ( shellcommands )
> > >
> > >     turnOffServices = ( "canna:gpm:autofs:kudzu:sendmail:netfs:
> > >   ipchains:iptables:portmap:nfs:nfslock:xfs:xinetd:ypbind:
> > >   cfengine:snmpd:wine:mysqld" )
> > >
> > >     turnOnServices = ( "sshd:httpd:ntpd" )
> > >
> > > shellcommands:
> > >
> > >     "/sbin/chkconfig --level 123456 $(turnOffServices) off"
> > >     "/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 $(turnOnServices) on"
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >     Eric Sorenson - EXPLOSIVE Networking - http://explosive.net
> 
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