CFENGINE

Edition 2.7 for version 1.3.16

• Foreword
• Overview
  • What is cfengine and who can use it?
  • Site configuration
  • Key Concepts
    • Control files
    • Network interface
    • Network File System (NFS)
    • Name servers (DNS)
    • Monitoring important files
    • Making links
  • Functionality
• Getting started
  • What you must have in a cfengine program
  • Program structure
  • Optional features in cfengine
  • Invoking cfengine
  • CFINPUTS environment variable
• More advanced concepts
  • Classes
  • Defining classes and making exceptions
  • The generic class any
  • Wildcards in directory names
  • Variable substitution
  • Quoted strings
  • Debugging tips
  • Access control
  • Regular expressions
• Designing a global system configuration
  • Cfengine's model for NFS-mounted filesystems
    • NFS filesystem resources
    • Unique filesystem mountpoints
    • How does it work?
    • Special variables
    • Example programs for mounting resources
  • Using the automounter
  • Using netgroups
  • Files and links
  • Log files written by cfengine
  • Copying files
  • Iterating over lists
  • Editing Files
  • Disabling and the file repository
  • Running user scripts
  • Managing processes
• Command reference
  • binservers
  • broadcast
  • control
    • site/faculty
    • domain
    • sysadm
    • netmask
    • timezone
    • nfstype
    • repository
    • repchar
    • split
    • sensiblesize
    • sensiblecount
    • editfilesize
    • mountpattern
    • homepattern
    • addclasses
    • actionsequence
    • access
    • excludelinks
    • excludecopy
    • copylinks
    • linkcopies
  • copy
  • defaultroute
  • directories
  • disable
  • editfiles
  • files
    • Syntax
    • Recursion
    • Directory permissions
    • home directive
    • Owner and group wildcards
    • Files linkchildren
    • touch
  • groups
  • homeservers
  • ignore
  • import
  • links
    • Single links
    • Multiple Links
    • Link Children
    • Relative and absolute links
    • Hard Links
  • mailserver
  • miscmounts
  • mountables
  • processes
  • required
  • resolve
  • shellcommands
  • tidy
  • unmount
• Writing scripts for cfengine
  • User scripts for tidying old files
  • Controlled opening of files for friends and colleagues
  • Root script for emergency disk clearing
  • Script for making links
  • Ftp server
• Problem solving, bugs, FAQs and tips
  • `cf.preconf' bootstrap file
  • `cfrc' resource file
  • Problems with installation
  • Bug reports and suggestions
  • FAQs and Tips
    • General
    • AIX
    • HPUX
    • IRIX
    • LINUX
    • OSF
    • SUN3 (4.1.*)
    • SUN4 (4.1.*)
    • SOLARIS 2
    • FreeBSD
• Using the help scripts
  • cfwrap
  • cfmail
  • noseyparker and editquotas: software quotas
  • cfbackup and cfrestore scripts
  • cfbg
• Example configuration files
  • cfengine.conf
  • cf.site
  • cf.users
  • cf.sun4
  • cf.solaris
  • cf.ultrix
  • cf.hpux
  • cf.linux
  • cf.freebsd
• Runtime Options
• Variable Index
• Concept Index
• FAQ Index

This document was generated on 5 November 1996 using the texi2html translator version 1.50.