cfengine-Tutorial

cfengine conceptsEdition 2.1.22 for version 2.1.22Mark BurgessFaculty of Engineering, Oslo University College, NorwaycCopyright 2001 Mark BurgessPermission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided thecopyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under theconditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the section entitled “GNU GeneralPublic License” is included exactly as in the original, and provided that the entire resultingderived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another lan-guage, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that the section entitled“GNU General Public License” may be included in a translation approved by the authorinstead of in the original English.This manual corresponds to CFENGINE Edition 2.1.22 for version 2.1.22 as last updated9 October 2005.Chapter 1: Overview 11 OverviewIn this manual the word “host” is used to refer to a single computer system – i.e. a singlemachine which has a name termed its “hostname”.1.1 What is cfengine and who can use it?Cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining computer systems. It consists of severalcomponents:cfagent An autonomous configuration agent (required).cfservd A file server and remote activation service ...