debian man page for cf-execd

cf-execd(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       cf-execd(8)

NAME
       cf-execd - cfengine's execution agent

SYNOPSIS
:
	cf-execd [options]

DESCRIPTION
:
       The  executor daemon is a scheduler and wrapper for execution of cf-agent. It collects the output of the agent and can email it to a speci-
       fied address. It can splay the start time of executions across the network and work as a class-based clock for scheduling.  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 permis-
       sions  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
:
       --help, -h
	      Print the help message

       --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

       --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)

       --no-winsrv, -W
	      Do not run as a service on windows - use this when running from a command shell (Cfengine Nova only)

       --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.

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