Re: Failsafe.cf in cfengine 3.18

For example https://groups.google.com/g/help-cfengine/c/_-ekz_TvFXg

Le vendredi 5 novembre 2021 à 15:36:19 UTC+1, Nick Anderson a écrit :

> thierry thunot <[email protected]> writes: 
>
> Hello Nick first of all thank you for your quick response. In fact in some 
> Cfengine doc it is mentioned that we can force the update of client 
> promises by the command cf-agent- KIf /var/cfengine/input/failsafe.cf to 
>
> I don't doubt at all that there is some old info … 
>
> For the historians, as I recall … 
>
> Back in the time before time, failsafe and update were conflated. failsafe 
> was supposed to provide a policy that would fail in a safe way simply 
> trying to fetch an updated working policy. While this might be OK for an 
> update policy, update policy sometimes needs to be smarter, and thus it can 
> be a bit more complex than failsafe. Actually, looks like this has been 
> discussed here before … 
> https://groups.google.com/g/help-cfengine/c/YUdfHJ7H47o/m/s4RTdEe4ok0J 
>
> Can you point me to the doc you saw it referenced in so that we can review 
> it and get it updated? 
>
> avoid waiting for the update automatic cfengine, to save time in 
> debugging. I must have made a bad interpretation …. I will try to use 
> update.cf Thank you again for your advice and explanation, 
>
> Great, good luck. 
>

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