Cfengine

Cfengine - Maintains configuration of a heterogenous UNIX network

Intended for sys admins, cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System 5-like operating systems optionally attached to a TCP/IP network.

The program focuses on a few key areas that scripts tend to mishandle. From a single configuration files (or set of files) you specify, using classes, your network configuration; cfengine then parses the file and carries out the instructions, warning you about errors (or fixing them) as it goes.

You can think of cfengine as a very high level language, higher than Perl or shell: a single command can result in many hundreds of operations being performed on multiple hosts. You can also use it as a net-wide front end for 'cron.'

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cfengine/cfengine-2.0.3a.tar.gz

Version 2.0.3a (stable) released on 2002-06-25

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/manual/cfengine-1.6.3/cfengine-Reference.html; User tutorial available from http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html

Support contacts

Help List	<help-cfengine@gnu.org>
Help News	gnu.cfengine.help
Developer List	<bug-cfengine@gnu.org> <bug-cfengine-request@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
Developer News	gnu.cfengine.bug
Bug List	<bug-cfengine@gnu.org> <bug-cfengine-request@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine

Project contacts

Maintainers	Mark Burgess <mark.burgess@iu.hio.no>
Developers	Mark Burgess <mark.burgess@iu.hio.no>
Contributors	David Masterson Knut-Havard Aksnes

Related information

Interfaces	command line, terminal
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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