CFENGINE

Edition 4.10 for version 1.4.16

• Foreword
• STATE OF MIND (FOR THE CRITICS)
• PART I
• Overview
  • What is cfengine and who can use it?
  • Site configuration
  • Key Concepts
    • Control files
    • Network interface
    • Network File System (NFS) or distribution?
    • 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
  • What to aim for
• More advanced concepts
  • Classes
  • Variable substitution
  • Defining classes and making exceptions
    • Command line classes
    • actionsequence classes
    • shellcommand classes
    • Feedback classes
    • Writing plugin modules
  • The generic class any
  • Debugging tips
  • Access control
  • Wildcards in directory names
  • File sweeps
  • Log files written by cfengine
  • Quoted strings
  • Regular expressions
  • Iterating over lists
• Designing a global system configuration
  • General considerations
  • Using netgroups
  • Files and links
  • Copying files
  • Managing processes
  • 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
  • Editing Files
  • Disabling and the file repository
  • Running user scripts
  • Compressing old log files
  • Managing ACLs
• Using cfengine as a front end for cron
  • Structuring `cfengine.conf'
  • Splaying host times
  • Building flexible time classes
  • Choosing a scheduling interval
• Cfengine and network services
  • Cfengine network services
  • How it works
    • Remote file distribution
    • Remote execution of cfengine
    • cfrun
    • Spamming and security
    • Some points on the cfd protocol
    • Deadlocks and runaway loops
  • Configuring cfd
    • Installation of cfd
    • Configuration file `cfd.conf'
    • TCP wrappers
• Security and cfengine
  • Security hints
  • Checksum Databases
  • Who do you trust?
  • Firewalls
• PART II
• Command reference
  • acl
    • Access control entries
    • Solaris ACLs
    • DFS ACLs
    • ACL Example
  • binservers
  • broadcast
  • control
    • access
    • actionsequence
    • AddClasses
    • AddInstallable
    • CopyLinks
    • DeleteNonUserMail
    • DeleteNonOwnerMail
    • domain
    • DryRun
    • editfilesize
    • ExcludeCopy
    • ExcludeLinks
    • ExpireAfter
    • HomePattern
    • IfElapsed
    • Inform
    • InterfaceName
    • FileExtensions
    • LinkCopies
    • moduledirectory
    • mountpattern
    • netmask
    • NonAlphaNumFiles
    • nfstype
    • RepChar
    • Repository
    • SecureInput
    • SensibleCount
    • SensibleSize
    • ShowActions
    • site/faculty
    • SplayTime
    • Split
    • suspiciousnames
    • sysadm
    • Syslog
    • timezone
    • TimeOut
    • Verbose
    • Warnings
    • WarnNonUserMail
    • WarnNonOwnerMail
  • classes
  • copy
    • Hard links in copying
    • Too many open files
  • defaultroute
  • disks
  • directories
  • disable
  • editfiles
  • files
    • Syntax
    • Recursion
    • Directory permissions
    • home directive
    • Owner and group wildcards
    • Files linkchildren
    • touch
    • create
  • groups
  • homeservers
  • ignore
  • import
  • interfaces
  • links
    • Single links
    • Multiple Links
    • Link Children
    • Relative and absolute links
    • Hard Links
  • mailserver
  • miscmounts
  • mountables
  • processes
  • required
  • resolve
  • shellcommands
  • tidy
  • unmount
• Cfengine script gallery
  • 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 compilation and installation
  • Bug reports and suggestions
  • FAQs and Tips
    • General
    • AIX
    • BSDI
    • HPUX
    • IRIX
    • LINUX
    • OSF
    • SUNOS (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.groups
  • cf.main
  • cf.site
  • cf.motd
  • cf.users
  • cf.solaris
  • cf.linux
  • cf.freebsd / cf.netbsd
  • cfd.conf
• Runtime Options
• Cfengine network protocol specs
• Variable Index
• Concept Index
• FAQ Index

This document was generated on 12 Febuary 1999 using the texi2html translator version 1.50.