Cfengine
Cfengine
http://www.gnu.org/software/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.'
Documentation
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
This is a GNU package:cfengine
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version 2.0.6
(stable)
released on 8 April 2003
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Licensing
| License | Verified by | Verified on | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| License:GPLv2orlater | Kelly Hopkins | 23 August 2010 |
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Mark Burgess | Maintainer |
| David Masterson | Contributor |
| Knut-Havard Aksnes | Contributor |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Tracking,Developer | mailto:bug-cfengine@gnu.org | |
| Support | mailto:help-cfengine@gnu.org | |
| Developer | Newsgroup | gnu.cfengine.bug |
| Support | Newsgroup | gnu.cfengine.help |
Software prerequisites
This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 15 October 2012.
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