Table of Contents

1. Command reference

1.1 acl

1.1.1 Access control entries
1.1.2 Solaris ACLs
1.1.3 DFS ACLs
1.1.4 NT ACLs

1.2 ACL Example

1.2.1 ACL Example

1.3 binservers
1.4 broadcast
1.5 control

1.5.1 access
1.5.2 actionsequence
1.5.3 AddClasses
1.5.4 AddInstallable
1.5.5 BinaryPaddingChar
1.5.6 CopyLinks
1.5.7 DefaultCopyType
1.5.8 DeleteNonUserMail
1.5.9 DeleteNonOwnerMail
1.5.10 domain
1.5.11 DryRun
1.5.12 editfilesize
1.5.13 ExcludeCopy
1.5.14 ExcludeLinks
1.5.15 ExpireAfter
1.5.16 HomePattern
1.5.17 IfElapsed
1.5.18 Inform
1.5.19 InterfaceName
1.5.20 FileExtensions
1.5.21 LockDirectory
1.5.22 LogDirectory
1.5.23 LinkCopies
1.5.24 moduledirectory
1.5.25 mountpattern
1.5.26 netmask
1.5.27 NonAlphaNumFiles
1.5.28 nfstype
1.5.29 RepChar
1.5.30 Repository
1.5.31 SecureInput
1.5.32 SensibleCount
1.5.33 SensibleSize
1.5.34 ShowActions
1.5.35 site/faculty
1.5.36 SplayTime
1.5.37 Split
1.5.38 suspiciousnames
1.5.39 sysadm
1.5.40 Syslog
1.5.41 timezone
1.5.42 TimeOut
1.5.43 Verbose
1.5.44 Warnings
1.5.45 WarnNonUserMail
1.5.46 WarnNonOwnerMail

1.6 classes
1.7 copy

1.7.1 Hard links in copying
1.7.2 Too many open files

1.8 defaultroute
1.9 disks
1.10 directories
1.11 disable
1.12 editfiles
1.13 files

1.13.1 Syntax
1.13.2 Recursion
1.13.3 Directory permissions
1.13.4 home directive
1.13.5 Owner and group wildcards
1.13.6 Files linkchildren
1.13.7 touch
1.13.8 create

1.14 filters

1.14.1 Complete filter examples

1.15 groups/classes
1.16 homeservers
1.17 ignore
1.18 import
1.19 interfaces
1.20 links

1.20.1 Single links
1.20.2 Multiple Links
1.20.3 Link Children
1.20.4 Relative and absolute links
1.20.5 Hard Links

1.21 mailserver
1.22 miscmounts
1.23 mountables
1.24 processes
1.25 required
1.26 resolve
1.27 shellcommands
1.28 tidy
1.29 unmount

2. Cfengine script gallery

2.1 User scripts for tidying old files
2.2 Controlled opening of files for friends and colleagues
2.3 Root script for emergency disk clearing
2.4 Script for making links
2.5 Ftp server

3. Problem solving, bugs, FAQs and tips

3.1 `cf.preconf' bootstrap file
3.2 `cfrc' resource file
3.3 Problems with compilation and installation
3.4 Bug reports and suggestions
3.5 FAQs and Tips

3.5.1 General
3.5.2 AIX
3.5.3 BSDI
3.5.4 HPUX
3.5.5 IRIX
3.5.6 LINUX
3.5.7 OSF
3.5.8 SUNOS (4.1.*)
3.5.9 SOLARIS 2
3.5.10 FreeBSD

4. Using the help scripts

4.1 cfwrap
4.2 cfmail

5. Example configuration files

5.1 cfengine.conf
5.2 cf.groups
5.3 cf.main
5.4 cf.site
5.5 cf.motd
5.6 cf.users
5.7 cf.solaris
5.8 cf.linux
5.9 cf.freebsd / cf.netbsd
5.10 cfd.conf

A. Runtime Options
B. Cfengine network protocol specs
Variable Index
Concept Index
FAQ Index