Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18970#msg-18970
Yeah Joke is a common nickname for Johann turned into an actual first name in my case. As guessed right I use the execresult() function to build a list of configuration files to include. I understand that it's not the recommend way to do it but it seems to be the only way to include a wildcard list of *.cf configuration files. I know that including a wildcard list of configuration files is considered to be dangerous but I don't see any reason why not to. So all I can do use execresult() and hope cfengine will cope and still fit my needs. I'm trying to evaluate cfengine as a configuration management. It's common to do such an evaluation based on a small custom setup and estimate the whole system based on that and assume the whole system will scale linear at best. There are very few systems which scale inverse proportionality. In this case of process forking scalability refers to the complexity of the configuration rules. Since cfengine doesn't run on a Plan 9 system it's unlikely processes are spawned across network boundaries. One of the main advantages of cfengine compared to cfengine seems to be that it's written in C. It doesn't require ruby to be installed and most of all it can be linked statically. That's what I find most attractive. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
