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cf-promises(8)                                                  cf-promises(8)




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 exe-
       cuted.  cfengine is a self-healing configuration and change  management
       based  system.  You  can  think of.B cfengine as a very high level lan-
       guage, much higher level than  Perl  or  shell.  Asingle  statement  is
       called  a promise, and compliance can result in many hundreds of files-
       being created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles  being  set.
       The  idea  of .B cfengine is to create a one or more sets of configura-
       tion 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
              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

       --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


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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