> We use Dag's Cfengine RPM on 4.x and do package management with it. > > The only trap that we've encountered, beyond those already listed, is > that cfengine executes shellcommands with umask 077, and many RPMs > don't install correctly with umask 077. To fix this, make sure that > you always add a umask=022 option to any rpm shellcommands. thanks all - useful tips and something for me to digest slowly i think cheers