NAME

       cf-execd - scheduling daemon for cf-agent

SYNOPSIS

       cf-execd [OPTION]...  [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       cf-execd  is  the  scheduling daemon for cf-agent. It runs cf-agent locally according to a
       schedule specified in policy code  (executor  control  body).  After  a  cf-agent  run  is
       completed,  cf-execd  gathers  output  from  cf-agent,  and may be configured to email the
       output to a specified address.  It  may  also  be  configured  to  splay  (randomize)  the
       execution  schedule  to  prevent  synchronized  cf-agent runs across a network. Note: this
       daemon reloads it's config when the SIGHUP signal is received.

OPTIONS

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

       --debug, -d
              Enable debugging output

       --verbose, -v
              Output verbose information about the behaviour of cf-execd

       --dry-run, -n
              All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept

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

       --file, -f value
              Specify an alternative input file than the default. This option  is  overridden  by
              FILE if supplied as argument.

       --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)

       --log-level, -g value
              Specify how detailed logs should be. Possible values: 'error', 'warning', 'notice',
              'info', 'verbose', 'debug'

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

       --once, -O
              Run once and then exit (implies no-fork)

       --no-winsrv, -W
              Do  not  run  as  a service on windows - use this when running from a command shell
              (CFEngine Nova only)

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

       --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

       --skip-db-check, - value
              Do not run database integrity checks and repairs at startup

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-execd 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 Northern.tech AS