cf-hub.8

.TH cf-hub 8 "Maintenance Commands"
.SH NAME
cf-hub - cfengine's report aggregator

.SH SYNOPSIS:

 cf-hub [options]

.SH DESCRIPTION:

The hub is a scheduler and aggregator for the CFDB knowledge
repository. It automatically schedules updates from clients
that have registered by previous connection.
.B cfengine
is a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of.B 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 .B cfengine
is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.
.SH COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:
.IP "--help, -h"
Print the help message
.IP "--debug, -d" value
Set debugging level 0,1,2,3
.IP "--verbose, -v"
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
.IP "--dry-run, -n"
All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept
.IP "--version, -V"
Output the version of the software
.IP "--file, -f" value
Specify an alternative input file than the default
.IP "--no-lock, -K"
Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run
.IP "--no-fork, -F"
Run as a foreground processes (do not fork)
.IP "--continuous, -c"
Continuous update mode of operation
.IP "--logging, -l"
Enable logging of updates to the promise log
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Burgess and Cfengine AS
.SH INFORMATION

Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .pp
Community help: http://forum.cfengine.com
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Community info: http://www.cfengine.org
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Support services: http://www.cfengine.com
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This software is Copyright (C) 2008- Cfengine AS.