[Demi-devel] Format for transferring machine information

[John Morrissey]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:46:01AM +0100, Leo Eraly wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:24:02AM -0500, John Morrissey wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:12:57AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > > My random musings:
> > > 
> > > 1) Have a cron job create a tarball, suck the tarball back.
> 
> I we go for the idea of the tarball maybe we should have
> a look at dconf
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/dconf
> 
> It does basically what you suggested , one can create a file
> with interested info/files that should be gathered and a tar.bz2 file is
> generated with all this info

This seems nifty. It could be triggered from an ssh wrapper that would call
dconf(1) to automatically update its tarball, so the data fetched from the
agent would always be current.

john
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