NAME

       cf-serverd - CFEngine file server daemon

SYNOPSIS

       cf-serverd [OPTION]...  [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       cf-serverd  is a socket listening daemon providing two services: it acts as a file server for remote file
       copying and it allows an authorized cf-runagent to start a cf-agent run. cf-agent typically connects to a
       cf-serverd  instance  to request updated policy code, but may also request additional files for download.
       cf-serverd employs role based access control (defined in policy code) to authorize requests.

OPTIONS

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

       --debug, -d
              Enable debugging output

       --verbose, -v
              Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

       --version, -V
              Output the version of the software

       --file, -f value
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

       --define, -D value
              Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution

       --negate, -N value
              Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution

       --no-lock, -K
              Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run

       --inform, -I
              Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired

       --diagnostic, -x
              Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)

       --no-fork, -F
              Run as a foreground processes (do not fork)

       --ld-library-path, -L value
              Set the internal value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for child processes

       --generate-avahi-conf, -A
              Generates avahi configuration file to enable policy server to be discovered in the network

       --color, -C value
              Enable colorized output. Possible values: 'always',  'auto',  'never'.  If  option  is  used,  the
              default value is 'auto'

       --timestamp, -l
              Log timestamps on each line of log output

CFENGINE

       CFEngine   provides  automated  configuration  management  of  large-scale  computer  systems.  A  system
       administrator describes the desired state of a system using CFEngine policy code.  The  program  cf-agent
       reads  policy  code and attempts to bring the current system state to the desired state described. Policy
       code is downloaded by cf-agent from a cf-serverd daemon. The daemon cf-execd is responsible  for  running
       cf-agent periodically.
       Documentation for CFEngine is available at http://cfengine.com/documentation/.

PROMISE THEORY

       CFEngine  is built on principles from promise theory, proposed by Mark Burgess in 2004. Promise theory is
       a model of voluntary cooperation between individual,  autonomous  actors  or  agents  who  publish  their
       intentions  to one another in the form of promises. A promise is a declaration of intent whose purpose is
       to increase the recipient's certainty about a claim of past, present or future behaviour. For  a  promise
       to  increase  certainty,  the  recipient  needs to trust the promiser, but trust can also be built on the
       verification that previous promises have been kept,  thus  trust  plays  a  symbiotic  relationship  with
       promises.
       For an introduction to promise theory, please see http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3294/

AVAILABILITY

       cf-serverd is part of CFEngine.
       Binary packages may be downloaded from http://cfengine.com/downloads/.
       The source code is available at http://github.com/cfengine/

BUGS

       Please see the public bug-tracker at http://bug.cfengine.com/.
       GitHub pull-requests may be submitted to http://github.com/cfengine/core/.

SEE ALSO

       cf-promises(8), cf-agent(8), cf-serverd(8), cf-execd(8), cf-monitord(8), cf-runagent(8), cf-key(8)

AUTHOR

       Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS