On Wednesday, May 19, 1999 at 20:41:57 -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes > to Nikko) > X-UIDL: 24e3c1b866b50d40dbdaae05d5921bd5 > > /etc/cron.daily/cfengine: > cfengine:main::26: Warning: perhaps cfengine.conf has not yet been set up?
Sounds like this is exactly the case. > 1. So, what's cfengine and how do I know if I need it? The doc in the > /usr/doc directory is huge and obscure -- could anyone be so kind as > to describe in a couple of words what it does? Reads a config file and does as directed, synchronizing user lists, passwords, or whatever you tell it. === From the package description (inside "dselect select" === cfengine - Tool for configuring and maintaining network machines The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator to create a single central file which will define how every host on a network should be configured. cfengine is also useful as an interpreter for a general scripting language for ordinary users. It is handy for tidying up junk files and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and permissions on files when collaborating with other users. It takes a while to set up cfengine for a network (especially an already existing network), but once that is done you will wonder how you ever lived without it! === End package description === If you don't know what it is, and don't run a LAN, you probably don't *need* it (although it's possible you could find some use for it.) Purging it will most likely cause no problems. (Do you have any idea how it got installed?) -- PGP Public Key available on request: Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/CFED2D11 1998/03/05 Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 98 2A 56 34 16 76 D5 21 39 93 99 EA 89 D4 B5 A2