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I'd like to get a notification when my server's free disk space drops below 10GB. How do I configure cfengine3 to tell me when / has less than 10GB of free space?
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In cfengine, I have a variable that is set to the output of a command. Let say variable myoutput is set to "hi world". How can I execute a command based on the contents of myoutput.
I would like to do something like this (sudo cfengine code):
bundle agent test
{
vars:
"myoutput"…
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On the client:
# cf-agent -KIv
...
cf3 -> Handling file existence constraints on /etc/cfengine3
cf3 -> Copy file /etc/cfengine3 from /srv/cfengine/sysconf/server/inputs check
cf3 No existing connection to 172.31.69.83 is established...
cf3 Set cfengine port number to 5308 = 5308
cf3 ->…
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I'm considering using Puppet or cfengine. Key factors are performance, and research on the internet suggests cfengine uses less memory and CPU cycles compared to puppet. However, puppet seems easier to use.
I need to manage several web servers, as well as handheld tablets and machines that will only…
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<b>Linux Magazine: </b>"Take some of the headaches out of managing sever farms with Cfengine 3. Use this automation introduction to save time, money and spare yourself crippling manual mistakes."
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Where do you like to put system configuration files (not the cfengine language) for cfengine to copy into place?
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I would like to set a class in cfengine3 so I can perform an action if the disk is almost full.
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I'd like to get a notification when my server's free disk space drops below 10GB. How do I configure cfengine3 to tell me when / has less than 10GB of free space?
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I'm using cfengine to start the foobar process. Apparently the LHS is discarded when I use process_select? Can I simply pass the LHS to a function, rather than having to put the command match pattern in a body argument?
bundle agent foobar {
processes:
"foobar" # documented way would be to use…
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This question is very similar to How can I use the output of a command in cfengine3 but the answer does not apply in my case I believe.
I want to update a git repository via "git pull" and based on whether that lead to changes trigger some follow up action.
Simplified, if there was something like…
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I am using the 'digest' copy method for all file copy promises, because of the way we package and deploy software, I cant rely on mtime for the criteria for updating files. For various reasons, I am not employing the client-server approach with a central configuration server: rather we package and…
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