cdist-explorer(7) ================= Nico Schottelius NAME ---- cdist-explorer - Explore the target systems DESCRIPTION ----------- Cdist explorer are small shell scripts, which will be executed on the target host. The aim of the explorer is to give hints to types on how to act on the target system. The explorer output the result of its investigation to stdout and should be a one-liner. The output may be empty, though. Cdist knows about general explorers, which are run in an early stage and type specific explorers. Both work exactly the same way, with the difference that the values of the general explorers are stored in a general location and the type specific below the types. Explorers can reuse other explorers on the target system by calling ./ (i.e. explorers are run from their location). In case of significant errors, the shell script may exit non-zero and return an error message on stderr, which will cause the cdist run to abort. SEE ALSO -------- cdist(7), cdist-config-layout(7), cdist-stages(7) COPYING ------- Copyright \(C) 2010-2011 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).