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cf-execd

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NAME

cf-execd - cfengine's execution agent

 

SYNOPSIS:

 cf-execd [options]

 

DESCRIPTION:

The executor daemon is a scheduler and wrapper forexecution of cf-agent. It collects the output of theagent and can email it to a specified address. It cansplay the start time of executions across the networkand work as a class-based clock for scheduling.cfengineis a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of.B cfengineas 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 .B cfengineis 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

Enable debugging output

--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, .ppCommunity help: http://forum.cfengine.comCommunity info: http://www.cfengine.com/pages/communitySupport services: http://www.cfengine.comThis software is Copyright (C) 2008-2012 CFEngine AS.

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