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cfengine(8)                                                        cfengine(8)




NAME

       cfagent - system configuration agent


SYNOPSIS

       /usr/local/sbin/cfagent [options]



DESCRIPTION

       cfengine  is  a language based system specifically designed for testing
       and configuring unix-like systems attached to a TCP/IP network. You can
       think  of  cfengine  as a very high level language -- much higher level
       than Perl or shell. A single statement can result in many  hundreds  of
       links being created, or the permissions of many hundreds of files being
       set. The idea of cfenginge is to create a single file or set of config-
       uration  files which will describe the setup of every host on your net-
       work.

       cfagent runs on every host and parses one file (or file-set), the  con-
       figuration  of  the  host is checked against this file and, if desired,
       any deviations are fixed.  cfagent reads a  configuration  file  called
       cfengine.conf  in  a  directory  pointed to by the environment variable
       CFINPUTS.  cfagent performs host integrity and security checks as  well
       as installing and repairing system configuration.


COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

       -a (--sysadm)            Print  only the name of the system administra-
                                tor then quit.

       -b (--force-net-copy)    Forces net  copy  even  if  remote  server  is
                                localhost

       -c (--no-check-files)    Do not check access rights on file systems

       -C (--no-check-mounts)   Check  mount  points  for consistency. If this
                                option is set then directories  which  lie  in
                                the  "mount  point"  area  are  checked to see
                                whether there is anything mounted on them.

       -d (--debug)             Enable  debugging  output.  (parsing  -d1,run,
                                -d2, lite -d3)

       -D (--define)            Define  a  compound  class  symbol of the form
                                alpha.beta.gamma.

       -e (--no-edits)          Suppress file editing.

       -E (--enforce-links)     Globally force links to be created where plain
                                files  or links already exist. You have to use
                                this in interactive mode and answer  a  yes/no
                                query before cfagent will run like this.

       -f (--file)              Parse  filename  after this switch. By default
                                cfagent looks for a file called  cfengine.conf
                                in the current directory.

       -h (--help )             Help  information.  Display version banner and
                                options summary.

       -H (--no-hard-classes)   Prevents cfagent from generating any  internal
                                class name information. Can be used for emula-
                                tion purposes.

       -i (--no-ifconfig)       Do not attempt to  configure  the  local  area
                                network interface.

       -I (--inform)            Switches  on  the inform output level, whereby
                                cfagent reports everything it changes..

       -k (--no-copy)           Do not copy/image any files.

       -K (--no-lock)           Ignore locks when running.

       -l (--traverse-links)    Normally  cfagent  does  not  follow  symbolic
                                links  when  recursively  parsing directories.
                                This option will force it to do so.

       -L (--delete-stale-links)
                                Delete links which do not  point  to  existing
                                files  (except in user home directories, which
                                are not touched).

       -m (--no-mount)          Do not attempt to mount file systems  or  edit
                                the filesystem table.

       -M (--no-modules)        Ignore modules in actionsequence.

       -n (--recon,--dry-run,--just-print)
                                No  action.  Only  print  what  has to be done
                                without actually doing it.

       -N (--negate,--undefine) Cancel a set  of  classes,  or  undefine  (set
                                value  to  false) a compound class of the form
                                alpha.beta.gamma.

       -p (--parse-only)        Parse file and then stop.  Used  for  checking
                                the syntax of a program.

       -P (--no-processes)      Do not test the existence of processes, signal
                                processes or optionally restart them.

       -q (--no-splay)          Switch off host splaying (sleeping).

       -s (--no-commands)       Do not execute scripts or shell commands.

       -S (--silent)            Silence run time warnings.

       -t (--no-tidy)           Do not tidy file systems.

       -u (--use-env)           Causes  cfagent  to  generate  an  environment
                                variable  CFALLCLASSES  which  can  be read by
                                child processes (scripts). This variable  con-
                                tains  a  summary of all the currently defined
                                classes at any given time. This option  causes
                                some  system 5 systems to generate a Bus Error
                                or segmentation fault.

       -U (--underscore-classes)
                                When this  option  is  set,  cfagent  adds  an
                                underscore to the beginning of all hard system
                                classes (like _sun4, _linux etc.)  This can be
                                used  to  avoid naming conflicts if you are so
                                injudicious as to name a host by the name of a
                                hard class. Other classes are not affected.

       -v (--verbose)           Verbose   mode.  Prints  detailed  information
                                about actions and state.

       -V (--version)           Print only the version string and then quit.

       -x (--no-preconf)        Do not execute the cf.preconf  net  configura-
                                tion file.

       -X (--no-links)          Do not execute the links section of a program.

       -w (--no-warn,--quiet)   Do not print warning messages.


AUTHOR

       Mark Burgess, Oslo University College


INFORMATION

       http://www.cfengine.org




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