CF-SERVERD(8)

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version 3.24.1 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so <pink>cf-serverd</pink> is the CFEngine file server daemon, and she's kind of a big deal 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cf-serverd [OPTION]...  [FILE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So <hotpink>cf-serverd</hotpink> is a socket-listening daemon and she serves two services, not one, we love a multitasker 👑

  • she acts as a file server for remote file copying, and
  • she lets an authorized cf-runagent start a cf-agent run.

cf-agent is literally the one that typically connects to a cf-serverd instance to request updated policy code — but bestie she can also request additional files for download while she's there, no big deal 💅

cf-serverd uses role based access control (and that's defined in policy code, iykyk) to authorize requests.

⚠️ heads up: this daemon reloads its config when the SIGHUP signal is received. so like, poke her gently.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --help, -h — prints the help message, the classic ✨
  • --log-level, -g value — says how detailed the logs should be. possible values: 'error', 'warning', 'notice', 'info', 'verbose', 'debug'
  • --debug, -d — enables debugging output 🐛
  • --verbose, -v — outputs verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
  • --version, -V — outputs the version of the software
  • --file, -f value — specify an alternative input file than the default. ngl this option gets overridden by FILE if it's supplied as an 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 it's "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, so like… not your business unless it's your business 🙈)
  • --no-fork, -F — run as a foreground process (do not fork)
  • --ld-library-path, -L value — set the internal value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for child processes
  • --generate-avahi-conf, -A — generates avahi configuration file to enable policy server to be discovered in the network 🌈
  • --color, -C value — enable colorized output. possible values: 'always', 'auto', 'never'. if the option is used, the default value is 'auto' 💖
  • --timestamp, -l — log timestamps on each line of log output
  • --graceful-detach, -t value — terminate gracefully on SIGHUP by detaching from systemd and waiting n seconds before terminating
  • --ignore-preferred-augments, - — ignore def_preferred.json file in favor of def.json

👑 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 https://docs.cfengine.com/. 📚

🧚 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-serverd is part of CFEngine.

💀 BUGS 💀

Please see the public bug-tracker at https://northerntech.atlassian.net/projects/CFE/.

GitHub pull-requests may be submitted to https://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

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie ✨ this page lives in the System Administration section, it's from CFEngine, and you can find her under CF-SERVERD(8) 💖 slay, go forth and serve files responsibly 🎀🦋💅

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