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NAME
       cf-promises - cfengine's promise analyzer

SYNOPSIS:
        cf-promises [options]

DESCRIPTION:
       The promise agent is a validator and analysis tool for configuration
       files belonging to any of the components of Cfengine. Configurations
       that make changes must be approved by this validator before being
       executed.  cfengine is a self-healing configuration and change
       management based system. You can think of.B 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 .B 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

       --bundlesequence, -b
              Use the specified bundlesequence for verification

       --debug, -d
              Enable debugging output

       --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

       --inform, -I
              Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e.
              promises repaired

       --diagnostic, -x
              Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)

       --analysis, -a
              Perform additional analysis of configuration

       --reports, -r
              Generate reports about configuration and insert into CFDB

       --parse-tree, -p
              Print a parse tree for the policy file in JSON format

       --gcc-brief-format, -g
              Use the GCC brief-format for output

AUTHOR
       Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS

INFORMATION
       Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .pp Community help:
       http://forum.cfengine.com Community info:
       http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community Support services:
       http://www.cfengine.com This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013
       CFEngine AS.

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