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cf-agent(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       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 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 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 argument --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 (ifelapsed/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) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS. Maintenance Commands cf-agent(8)
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