NAME

       cf-execd - cfengine's execution agent

SYNOPSIS:

        cf-execd [options]

DESCRIPTION:

       The  executor  daemon is a scheduler and wrapper for execution of cf-agent. It collects the output of the
       agent and can email it to a specified address. It can splay the  start  time  of  executions  across  the
       network  and  work  as  a class-based clock for scheduling.  cfengine is a self-healing configuration and
       change management based system. You can think of cfengine as a very  high  level  language,  much  higher
       level  than  Perl  or  shell.  Asingle  statement  is called a promise, and compliance can result in many
       hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many  hundreds  offiles  being  set.  The  idea  of
       cfengine is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup
       of every host in a network.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

       --debug, -d
              Set debugging level 0,1,2,3

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

       --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
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

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

       --negate, -N
              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)

       --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
              Set the internal value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for child processes

AUTHOR

       Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS

INFORMATION

       Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .PP Community help: http://forum.cfengine.com

       Community info: http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community

       Support services: http://www.cfengine.com

       This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS.

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