Categories
Audio
Business and productivity
Database
Education
Email
Games
Graphics
Hobbies
Interface
Internet applications
Live communications
Localization
Mathematics
Printing
Science
Security
Software development
Software libraries
System administration
Text creation and manipulation
Video
Web authoring
Cfengine
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.'
Last updated 23 Oct, 2005
About
Leadership
- Mark Burgess - Maintainer
- David Masterson - Contributor
- Knut-Havard Aksnes - Contributor
Related Projects
Versions
2.1.16
2.1.16 stable released 2005-10-23
- Released: 23 Oct, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: ftp://ftp.iu.hio.no/pub/cfengine/cfengine-2.1.16.tar.gz
- Licenses: GPLv2orlater
- Interfaces: Command Line, Console
User Community and Support
User reference manual available in HTML, PDF, PostScript from http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/documentation.phtml; User tutorial available in HTML, PDF, PostScript from http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/documentation.phtml