A Site Configuration Engine

Cfengine is a language-based system uã*ini*t ution tool in which systern maintenance tasks ." uoaorrr*"¿ and the configuration of all networked t or,, *" defined in a central file' Host confrguration -uV U" tested and repaired anV n¡rmbLof times witho*'tft" need for human intervention' Cfengine uses a decision-making process based on class membership *J it therefore ópdmized for dealing with large numbers of related hosts as well as individually pin-pointed systems. o 1gg5 The usENIX Association, computing systems,vol. 8 ' No. 3 ' sum¡ner 1995 309