FAI & cfengine

[John G. Heim]

I am currently trying to set up a cfengine system on my network. The first 
thing I want to do is try to make sure all of the client machines have the 
same config files for things like NTP, cron, etc. It occured to me that the 
canonical copies of those files are within my FAI config directory. So it 
should be possible for me to make a change to a file with my FAI config 
directory and have cfengine automatically ship it out to all the machines 
that have already been set up. But how to do that?

I'm thinking of moving the FAI files to a "normal" heirarchy within the 
cfengine space. So my canonical nntp config file would be in 
/var/lib/cfengine2/clientfiles/etc/ntp.conf. And within the FAI space, 
there'd be a symlink from /srv/fai/config/files/etc/ntp.conf/MYCLASS to the 
"real" file.

Has anybody ever managed a configuration like this? Any other (better) ways 
to do what I want to do?