SYNOPSIS
/usr/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 cfengine is to create a single file or set of configuration files which will describe the setup of every host on your network.cfagent runs on every host and parses one file (or file-set), the configuration 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 administrator 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 emulation 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 contains 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 configuration file.
- -X (--no-links)
- Do not execute the links section of a program.
- -w (--no-warn,--quiet)
- Do not print warning messages.