cfengine on front page

Cfengine is on the front page of this edition of the April edition of Linux jounal with an article by Scott Lackey on setting up.

cfengine 2.2.6 - stable upgrade

Cfengine 2.2.6 is now planned for release at the end of April. We recommend users planning to upgrade wait for this release as it contains a fix for a bug that was introduced into 2.2.5 which can mean that processes that have died will not be restarted (they fail with an "invisible segmentation fault"). Other improvements will include support for sensor data in cfenvd, which are part of our work to provide complete autonomic control for the datacentre. Patches are now available in SVN, and the release will be tested until the end of April.

Announcing the new website for cfengine commercial services

Visit the new website for cfengine.com, offering enhanced and commerical services for cfengine users. For a free registration you will have access to enhanced online documentation. More online services are to be added during the year.

New cfengine related products will be sold through this site. Register now for access to the latest and best information about using cfengine.

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cfengine 3.0.0 training pack released

A training version of cfengine has now been released to allow users to play with the new cfengine language without fear of wreaking hack on systems. The fully functional cfengine 3 is expected at the end of 2008.

All syntax is now uniform and based on the much written about promise construction developed by Mark Burgess: 

                                    promise body
Promise :=                Resource ---------------> Watcher

Introducing cfengine to the Far East

A new web page explaining the basic concepts of cfengine for readers of Mandarin and Simplified Chinese. Conquering the data centres of the Orient...

New cfengine book

A System Engineers Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance using Cfengine

by Mark Burgess and Æleen Frisch

is now available from the USENIX/SAGE Handbook series.

SAGE members can access the content online.

This book should be a must for all cfengine users, large and small.