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cf-agent(8)                                                        cf-agent(8)




NAME

       cf-agent - cfengine's change agent



SYNOPSIS:

        cf-agent [options]



DESCRIPTION:

       The  main  Cfengine agent is the instigator of change in the system. In
       that sense it is the most important part of the Cfengine suite.

       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:

       --bootstrap, -B
              Bootstrap/repair a cfengine configuration from failsafe file  in
              the WORKDIR else in current directory

       --bundlesequence, -b
              Set or override bundlesequence from command line

       --debug, -d
              Set debugging level 0,1,2

       --define, -D
              Define  a  list  of comma separated classes to be defined at the
              start of execution

       --diagnostic, -x
              Do internal diagnostic (developers only) level in optional argu-
              ment

       --dry-run, -n
              All  talk  and  no action mode - make no changes, only inform of
              promises not kept

       --file, -f
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

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

       --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    (ife-
              lapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run

       --policy-server, -s
              Define the server name or IP address of the a policy server (for
              use with bootstrap)

       --verbose, -v
              Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

       --version, -V
              Output the version of the software


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)  2008-2011
       CFEngine AS.



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