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 specified 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 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:¶

--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.