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NAME
cf-promises - cfengine's promise analyzer
SYNOPSIS:
cf-promises [options]
DESCRIPTION:
The promise agent is a validator and analysis tool for configuration
files belonging to any of the components of Cfengine. Configurations
that make changes must be approved by this validator before being
executed. cfengine is a self-healing configuration and change
management based system. You can think of.B 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 .B 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
--inform, -I
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e.
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promises repaired
--diagnostic, -x
Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)
--analysis, -a
Perform additional analysis of configuration
--reports, -r
Generate reports about configuration
AUTHOR
Mark Burgess and Cfengine AS
INFORMATION
Bug reports: bug-cfengine@cfengine.org Community help: help-
cfengine@cfengine.org Community info: http://www.cfengine.org Support
services: http://www.cfengine.com This software is Copyright (C) 2008-
Cfengine AS.
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