The server daemon provides two services: it acts as a
file server for remote file copying and it allows an
authorized cf-runagent to start start a cf-agent process
and set certain additional classes with role-based access
control.
cfengine
is a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of
cfengine
as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell. Asingle statement is called a promise, and compliance can result in many hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles being set. The idea of
cfengine
is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:
--help, -h
Print the help message
--debug, -d
Set debugging level 0,1,2,3
--verbose, -v
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
--dry-run, -n
All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept
--version, -V
Output the version of the software
--file, -f
Specify an alternative input file than the default
--define, -D
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution
--negate, -N
Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution
--no-lock, -K
Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run
--inform, -I
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired
--diagnostic, -x
Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)
--no-fork, -F
Run as a foreground processes (do not fork)
--ld-library-path, -L
Set the internal value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for child processes