cdist(1) ======== Nico Schottelius NAME ---- cdist - Configuration management SYNOPSIS -------- cdist [-h] [-V] cdist banner cdist config [-h] [-d] [-V] [-c CONF_DIR] [-i MANIFEST] [-p] [-s] host [host ...] DESCRIPTION ----------- cdist is the frontend executable to the cdist configuration management. cdist supports different as explained below. The options to the main program are: -h, --help:: Show the help screen -V, --version:: Show version and exit BANNER ------- Displays the cdist banner. CONFIG ------ Configure a system -h, --help:: Show the help screen -c CONF_DIR, --conf-dir CONF_DIR:: Add a configuration directory. Can be specified multiple times. If configuration directories contain conflicting types, explorers or manifests, then the last one found is used. Additionally this can also be configured by setting the CDIST_PATH environment variable to a colon delimited list of config directories. Directories given with the --conf-dir argument have higher precedence over those set through the environment variable. -d, --debug:: Enable debug output -i MANIFEST, --initial-manifest MANIFEST:: Path to a cdist manifest or - to read from stdin -p, --parallel:: Operate on multiple hosts in parallel -s, --sequential:: Operate on multiple hosts sequentially --remote-copy REMOTE_COPY: Command to use for remote copy (should behave like scp) --remote-exec REMOTE_EXEC: Command to use for remote execution (should behave like ssh) EXAMPLES -------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Configure ikq05.ethz.ch with debug enabled cdist config -d ikq05.ethz.ch # Configure hosts in parallel and use a different home directory cdist config -c ~/p/cdist-nutzung \ -p ikq02.ethz.ch ikq03.ethz.ch ikq04.ethz.ch # Use custom remote exec / copy commands cdist config --remote-exec /path/to/my/remote/exec \ --remote-copy /path/to/my/remote/copy \ -p ikq02.ethz.ch ikq03.ethz.ch ikq04.ethz.ch # Display banner cdist banner # Show help cdist --help # Show Version cdist --version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENT ----------- TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP:: Setup the base directory for the temporary directory. See http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/tempfile.html for more information. This is rather useful, if the standard directory used does not allow executables. EXIT STATUS ----------- The following exit values shall be returned: 0:: Successful completion 1:: One or more host configurations failed SEE ALSO -------- - cdist(7) - cdist-reference(7) COPYING ------- Copyright \(C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).