Re: Failsafe.cf in cfengine 3.18
"'Nick Anderson' via help-cfengine" <[email protected]>
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thierry thunot <[email protected]> writes: > For example https://groups.google.com/g/help-cfengine/c/_-ekz_TvFXg Ah, yeah old mailing list posts. Looks like that thread was from around the time when failsafe.cf started getting generated from C. it was Feb 2014 when failsafe.cf in libpromises appeared, after being pulled out directly from C. https://github.com/cfengine/core/commit/914ad8f8d440a57a7a52492f456917774c2a2dcc#diff-2c134a934d2f416297f6d3d6ceb563efd33b5e92ddb8fb0efe882b9bba87c969 And it looks like it was back in 2011 when the embedded failsafe came to core https://github.com/cfengine/core/commit/830a692c6a8e6cc2e5da52cecfd6bed4945fd716 > > 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. >> -- Nick Anderson | Doer of Things | (+1) 785-550-1767 | https://northern.tech -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "help-cfengine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/help-cfengine/8735o2s0og.fsf%40northern.tech.