Re: boot strap problem

[Martin A. Brooks]

At 13:59 03/01/2003 -0600, you wrote:

> Does anyone have an example of bootstrapping a new cfengine install. The 
> problem I have is that after I install berkeleydb and cfengine, I have to 
> run cfkey and then ssh this key to a master host. Problem is, I use 
> cfengine for all software installs so I don't have cfengine on new hosts. 
> I'm sure someone has solved this problem. It appears that cfengine has 
> some features to account for the chicken and egg problem, but I thought I 
> ask to see if someone has already thought of a clever solution.

This may not be appropriate to your case but, for one of my clients, I 
built a Redhat kickstart based rollout system that, as part of the 
installation, installed cfengine and hooked the server up to the master 
repository.

Regards


Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/