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cf-serverd(8)          DragonFly System Manager's Manual         cf-serverd(8)

NAME

cf-serverd - cfengine's server agent SYNOPSIS: cf-serverd [options] DESCRIPTION: 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 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.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 --debug, -d Enable debugging output --verbose, -v Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent --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

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. Maintenance Commands cf-serverd(8)

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