Re: [Hampshire] Running a script that needs to do a rooty th…

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Author: Stephen Nelson-Smith
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Running a script that needs to do a rooty thing
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Victor Churchill
<victorchurchill@???> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been asked to make a Perl script that does some stuff with Apache's
> config (adds a virtual host) and then does an apache2ctl graceful to tell
> Apache to re-read its config files.


Sounds like the sort of thing that would be well handled with Puppet /
Chef / CFengine. Appreciate that may be over kill, but it's something
to consider. Doing this with a Perl script is a bit of a smell to me.

S.
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