cdist-quickstart(1) =================== Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org> NAME ---- cdist-quickstart - Make use of cinit in 5 minutes DESCRIPTION ----------- This document helps you to take the first steps with cdist. We'll begin to configure the host "localhost" to have two files in place, /etc/DO-NOT-CHANGE and /root/CDIST-ENABLED-HOST, which both are used to warn other sysadmins that this system is managed by configuration management and manual changes may get overwritten. Begin to execute cdist-quickstart, it will show you the steps it takes and explains what it does: % cdist-quickstart mkdir -p /etc/cdist/manifests # Create Cdist uses kgives you an impression of 0. Create a host specification (/etc/cdist/hosts/**hostname**) 0. Add functionalilty to add 0. Run ***cdist-apply*** SEE ALSO -------- cdist-config-layout(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). ## How to use cdist?