README

Bcfg2 - A Configuration Management System
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Bcfg2 (bee-config two) helps system administrators produce a 
consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their
environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid
in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of
configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics and
Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. 

* Homepage: http://bcfg2.org

Bcfg2 is fairly portable. It has been successfully run on:

* AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, Solaris
* Many GNU/Linux distributions, including ArchLinux, Blag, CentOS, 
  Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, gNewSense, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat/RHEL,
  SuSE/SLES, Trisquel, and Ubuntu.
  
Installation
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For details about the installation of Bcfg2 please refer to the 
following pages in the Bcfg2 wiki.

* Prerequisites: http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Prereqs
* Download:      http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Download
* Installation:  http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Install

Need help
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* FAQ:          http://bcfg2.org/wiki/FAQ
* IRC:          #bcfg2 on chat.freenode.net
* Mailing list: https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/bcfg-dev
* Bug tracker:  http://bcfg2.org/report

Documentation
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A lot of documentation is available in the Bcfg2 manual and the Bcfg2 wiki.

Wiki:   http://bcfg2.org/wiki/
Manual: http://docs.bcfg2.org/


Bcfg2 is licensed under BSD, for more details check COPYING.