If a configuration is to be specified at one central location,
how does it get distributed to many hosts? The simple answer
is to get cfengine to distribute the configuration to the
hosts. To do that, a separate configuration file is used. Why?
Imagine what would happen if you made a mistake in the configuration,
i.e. a syntax error which got distributed to every host. Now all
the hosts wuld be unable to run cfengine, and thereafter unable
to download a corrected configuration file. The whole setup would
be broken. To prevent this kind of accident, a separate configuration
file is used to copy the files and binaries to each host. This
configuration should be simple, and should almost never be edited:
they key word here is reliability.
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