.TH cf-serverd 8 "Maintenance Commands"
.SH NAME
cf-serverd - cfengine's server agent

.SH SYNOPSIS:

 cf-serverd [options]

.SH DESCRIPTION:

The server daemon provides two services: it acts as a
file server for remote file copying and it allows an
authorized cf-runagent to start start a cf-agent process
and set certain additional classes with role-based access
control.

.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"
Set debugging level 0,1,2,3
.IP "--verbose, -v"
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
.IP "--version, -V"
Output the version of the software
.IP "--file, -f"
Specify an alternative input file than the default
.IP "--define, -D"
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution
.IP "--negate, -N"
Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution
.IP "--no-lock, -K"
Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run
.IP "--inform, -I"
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired
.IP "--diagnostic, -x"
Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)
.IP "--no-fork, -F"
Run as a foreground processes (do not fork)
.IP "--ld-library-path, -L"
Set the internal value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for child processes
.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.com/pages/community
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Support services: http://www.cfengine.com
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This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS.