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  • !

    • a

  • Absolute links
  • Access control, Access control
  • Access control by directory
  • Access control in cfd
  • Access control lists, Access control lists
  • ACL aliases
  • ACL key
  • ACLs, ACLs
  • ACLs, DFS
  • ACLs, solaris
  • action sequence
  • Actions, order of
  • Adding defined classes
  • Adding new classes
  • AFS, AFS
  • allclasses variable
  • Andrew filesystem
  • Annulling entries when debugging

    • -

  • -a option

    • a

  • AppendToLineIfNotContains, example
  • atime tidies
  • Atomic operations in cfengine
  • Atoms in cfengine
  • AutoCreate
  • `auto_direct'
  • `auto_master'
  • Automatic backup
  • Automatic restoring of lost files
  • automount
  • automounter
  • awk, editing

    • b

  • Backing up filesystems
  • Backup, automatic
  • Backup of files in copy
  • Backup policy
  • Backups, with copy
  • Bad address error in solaris
  • BeginGroupIfFileExists
  • BeginGroupIfFileIsNewer
  • Berkeley database library
  • Berkeley sendmail
  • Binary server
  • Binary server, matching
  • Binary servers and links, Binary servers and links
  • Binary servers, declaring
  • Binary servers, defining
  • Binary servers, priority, Binary servers, priority
  • binserver variable and actionsequence

    • /

  • /bin/sh -c problem.

    • b

  • Bootstrap file
  • Broadcast address
  • Broadcasts to the cfengine service.
  • Broadcast with solaris 2.4
  • Bugs, reporting

    • c

  • CERT advisories
  • CFALLCLASSES, CFALLCLASSES
  • cfbackup
  • cfd and access keyword
  • `cfd.conf' file, `cfd.conf' file
  • cfd daemon
  • cfd dameon

    • .

  • .cfdisabled
  • `.cfdisabled' files

    • c

  • `cfengine.conf', `cfengine.conf', `cfengine.conf'
  • `cfengine.conf' file
  • cfengine model
  • cfengine model, how it works

    • .

  • .cfengine.rm, .cfengine.rm

    • c

  • Cfengine security worries
  • cfengine, starting
  • `cf.groups'
  • CFINPUTS variable
  • CFINPUTS variable
  • `cf.main'
  • `cf.motd'

    • .

  • .cfnew
  • `.cfnew' files, `.cfnew' files

    • c

  • cf.preconf bootstrap file
  • cfrc resource file
  • cfrestore
  • cfrun
  • cfrunCommand variable
  • cfrun program
  • cfrun program, cfrun program

    • .

  • `.cfsaved' files, `.cfsaved' files

    • c

  • `cf.site', `cf.site'
  • cfwatcher program
  • cfwrap, wrapper script
  • ChecksumDatabase variable
  • Class data and scripts
  • Class decided by shell command
  • Class dependencies
  • Classes
  • classes, classes, classes
  • Classes, adding and defining
  • Classes based on shell commands
  • Classes, compound
  • Classes, defining and undefining
  • Class, generic any
  • Class information, passing to scripts
  • Clock synchronization during copying
  • Comments
  • Compound classes
  • Computer emergency response team
  • Config file, default name
  • Contention during copying under load
  • Control files
  • Controlling log-files
  • Controlling the size of log files
  • control section
  • copy, copy
  • Copy, exact filetree images
  • copy, file sweeps
  • Copying files
  • core files, caution!
  • Creating files
  • Cron jobs, controlling with cfengine
  • cron script to start cfengine

    • .

  • `.cshrc', distributing

    • c

  • ctime tidies

    • d

  • Day of the week
  • db library
  • DCE key
  • Deadlock
  • Deadlock protection
  • Deadlock zombie bug in restart
  • Debugging, annulling entries
  • Decrementing line pointer in editfiles
  • Default file
  • `defaultroute'
  • Default route, cannot set
  • Defining a binary server
  • Defining a home server
  • Defining a mail server
  • Defining a mountable
  • Defining classes, Defining classes, Defining classes
  • Defining groups
  • Deleting directories
  • Deleting files
  • Deleting stale links, Deleting stale links
  • Dependencies
  • Device boundaries
  • Device boundaries and files
  • Device boundaries and remote copy access
  • DFS, DFS
  • Directories, deleting
  • Directories, making
  • Directory Names, use of wildcards
  • Directory permissions
  • disable, problems with logging afterwards
  • disable, trimming log files
  • Disabling files
  • Disabling file types
  • Disk full, problems during copying
  • disks actions
  • Distributing files
  • Distributing user files
  • DNS, DNS
  • domain
  • Domain name

    • -

  • -D option
  • -d option in cfrun

    • d

  • Dots in hostnames
  • Double quotes
  • DryRun

    • e

  • Editing users login files
  • Empty files
  • Environment variable CFALLCLASSES
  • Environment variable, CFINPUTS
  • Environment variables, Environment variables

    • /

  • `/etc/cfengine'
  • /etc/cfengine/cfengine.log
  • `/etc/defaultroute'
  • /etc/host.conf
  • `/etc/hosts.equiv', `/etc/hosts.equiv'
  • `/etc/inetd.conf' file and cfengine
  • `/etc/shells'

    • e

  • Example configuration files
  • Exceptions
  • exclude=
  • exclude=, problems
  • Excluding actions in a controlled way
  • Excluding classes
  • Excluding files from a file sweep
  • ExpireAfter, caution setting to zero!
  • Exporting filesystems, Exporting filesystems
  • exports, fixing

    • f

  • FAQs
  • Field separator in editfiles
  • File images (copy)
  • File management
  • Files, breaking up into several
  • Files, checking permissions, Files, checking permissions
  • Files, configuration
  • Files, control
  • File search paths
  • files, file sweeps
  • Files, home wildcard
  • Files, importing
  • File sizes, specifying
  • Files, ownership
  • Files, recursion
  • Files, setting owner
  • Files, syntax
  • File tree images
  • Flex and bison problem
  • Force copying
  • Fork error in solaris
  • Format
  • FreeBSD mount problem
  • Free format
  • freespace=, freespace=
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Frozen configuration files
  • ftp and alternative shells
  • ftp login problems
  • Full disk warnings, Full disk warnings
  • Fully qualified names

    • g

  • Group dependencies
  • Group field, editing
  • Grouping time values
  • groups
  • groups
  • groups and time intervals
  • Groups, defining

    • h

  • Hard class name collision
  • Hard links
  • Hardlinks
  • Help
  • Help scripts
  • Hints and Tips

    • /

  • `/home'

    • h

  • home directive
  • Home directories and automount
  • Home path
  • Homepattern variable.
  • Home server
  • Home servers, declaring
  • Home servers, defining
  • home wildcard

    • -

  • -h option

    • h

  • Hostname collision
  • Host name gets truncated
  • `hosts.equiv'
  • Hour classes
  • How can I make cfengine distribute my `/etc/motd' file?
  • httpd problem with logging
  • Hung machine
  • HUP and cfd, don't need to

    • i

  • ifconfig
  • IfElapsed, caution setting to zero!
  • ignore command
  • Import files, variables in
  • Importing files
  • include=
  • Incrementing line pointer in editfiles
  • Infinite loops
  • InterfaceName
  • Interface name, redefining by class
  • Internal classes, switching off
  • Internet address
  • Invoking cfengine
  • IP address
  • Iterating over lists in shellcommands
  • Iteration over lists, Iteration over lists

    • k

  • Key, ACL
  • Killing processes
  • Kill processes not owned by root
  • Kilobyte, filesize unit

    • l

  • lex and yacc problems
  • Linkchildren, Linkchildren
  • Linking to binservers
  • Links
  • Links, absolute, Links, absolute
  • Links and binary servers, Links and binary servers
  • Links, deleting stale, Links, deleting stale
  • Links, forcing for non-existent files
  • Links, making
  • Links, multiple
  • Links, removing dead
  • Links, single
  • Links, traversing in searches, Links, traversing in searches
  • Linux, installing
  • Load balancing
  • Local disk space, make use of
  • localhost and remote copying
  • Local startup file for solaris
  • Lock files for ordinary users
  • Log files
  • Log files, controlling the size of
  • Log-files, preventing overflow
  • Log files, rotating
  • Logical NOT
  • Login files, editing for all users

    • -

  • -L option
  • -l option, -l option

    • m

  • Macros
  • Mail agent
  • Mail from scripts
  • Mail server, defining
  • Making backups
  • Making directories
  • Making links
  • Making paths
  • Making use of local disk space
  • Master files, updating from
  • MaxConnections variable
  • Megabytes, filesize unit
  • Message of the day files
  • Miscellaneous mount operations
  • Monitoring important files
  • Months
  • Mountable resources, defining, Mountable resources, defining
  • Mounted filesystems
  • Mounting filesystems.
  • Mount paths
  • Mount points
  • mtime tidies
  • Multiple links
  • Multiple package configuration
  • Musts in cfengine

    • n

  • Name collision
  • Name server
  • Naming convention
  • Negating classes
  • Negating entries from netgroups
  • Netgroups
  • netgroups
  • Netgroups and Linux
  • Netgroups, negating entries
  • Netmask
  • netmask
  • Netmask with solaris 2.4
  • network configuration
  • network interface
  • New systems, support for
  • NFS
  • nfs
  • NFS mounted filesystems
  • NFS mount model and automounter
  • NFS resources
  • nfstype
  • NIS
  • NIS, netgroup support

    • -

  • -N option

    • n

  • NOT operator

    • o

  • ones
  • Operator ordering
  • Optional features in cfengine
  • Order of actions
  • Ordinary users, lock files
  • Ownership of files

    • p

  • Package configuration, multiple
  • Password file, editing
  • Paths, making
  • Path to home directories
  • Path to input files
  • Path to mounted filesystems
  • Pattern matching in file sweeps
  • Patterns
  • Permissions, directories
  • Permissions, extended
  • Piping input into cfengine
  • Policy for running the system
  • Processes, 0 to 3
  • Processes, check if running
  • Processes, checking existence of
  • Processes, counting
  • Processes, killing
  • Processes, signalling
  • Program format
  • Program structure

    • q

  • Quotas, soft
  • Quoted strings
  • Quoting strings

    • r

  • Race conditions during copying
  • `rc.local' in solaris
  • rdist program
  • Recursion in files
  • Relative links
  • Remote distribution of files
  • Remote execution of cfengine, Remote execution of cfengine
  • Removing directories
  • Removing entries from netgroups
  • Renaming files
  • Replacing file by link
  • Reporting bugs
  • Repository filenames, changing
  • Rereading `cfd.conf'
  • resolv.conf
  • Resolver configuration
  • Resource file
  • Restarting cfd
  • Restart zombie deadlock bug
  • Restricting access
  • Restricting the size of files to be edited
  • Retrieving backed-up files
  • rmdirs
  • Rotating files
  • Rotating log files
  • routed
  • `run-cfengine' file.
  • Running cfengine, cron script
  • Running cfengine from a single master host, Running cfengine from a single master host
  • Running cfengine remotely
  • Running cfrun

    • s

  • Scripts and class information
  • Scripts, examples
  • Scripts, passing classes to
  • Scripts, writing
  • Searching for home directories
  • Search patterns in files
  • Sections, order of
  • Security under solaris
  • Security with NIS
  • sed, editing
  • Segmentation fault in files and dirs
  • sendmail, sendmail
  • Sendmail configuration
  • `sendmail.fc'
  • Sensible file sizes
  • Sensible limits on files in a directory
  • server=
  • server= when copying to localhost
  • setgid root log
  • setuid log
  • setuid root log
  • setuid root programs
  • Setuid scripts
  • Several files
  • sharing filesystems
  • Shell commands which define classes
  • Shell command to decide class
  • Shell, starting programs
  • Single links
  • Single quotes
  • site
  • size field in disable
  • Software quotas
  • Solaris and tcsh
  • Solaris routing bug
  • Solaris, security
  • Solaris, `/tmp'

    • -

  • -S option in cfrun

    • s

  • Special variables
  • Specifying file sizes
  • Splaying host times
  • SplayTime in cfrun
  • split, split
  • SplitOn
  • Spoofing
  • Starting cfengine
  • Starting cfengine, cron script
  • Starting commands without a shell
  • STDIN, reading from
  • Strings
  • Structure of a program
  • Subnet mask
  • Support for new systems
  • Suspicious filenames
  • Switching off backup in copy
  • Switching off internal classes
  • Symbolic links, absolute
  • Symbolic links, relative

    • +

  • `+' symbol in `/etc/hosts.equiv'

    • s

  • sysadm
  • System administrator, name
  • System policy

    • t

  • TCP wrappers, TCP wrappers
  • tcsh and solaris
  • Tidy by ctime, mtime, atime
  • tidy, file sweeps
  • Tidying empty files
  • Tidying files, Tidying files
  • Time classes
  • Time classes, hours
  • timeout= in shellcommands
  • Timeouts during iterations
  • Tips using cfengine

    • /

  • `/tmp' under solaris

    • t

  • Too many open files error
  • Touching files
  • Tree copying, exact
  • Truncating log files
  • Trust model

    • u

  • underscoreclasses
  • Unmounting filesystems
  • Updating files from master source
  • User backups
  • User programs which define classes

    • /

  • `/users'

    • u

  • useshell=

    • /

  • `/var/adm/wtmpx'

    • v

  • Variables and Macros
  • Variables, cfengine
  • Variables, cfengine model
  • Variables, environment
  • Variables in import files
  • Variable substitution
  • Variables, using

    • /

  • `/var/log/cfengine'
  • /var/log/cfengine/cfengine.log
  • `/var/lp/logs/lpsched'

    • v

  • Verifying with -n option

    • w

  • Warning about full disks, Warning about full disks
  • Wildcard, any class
  • Wildcard home
  • Wildcards
  • Wildcards, in directory names
  • Wildcards in homepattern
  • Wrapper script
  • wtmpx
  • WWW server logs

    • .

  • .X11 directory

    • x

  • xdev (File system boundaries)

    • -

  • -x option

    • .

  • `.xsession', distributing

    • y

  • yacc problems
  • Years

    • z

  • zeros

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