Sysf is a system administration tool designed to greatly simplify the central configuration of a network of Linux/Unix computers and make Linux/Unix even more scalable. All the system configuration files of the individual computers are archived in a common set of directories and sysf maintains this archive and the real system files.

The strength of sysf is to simplify the maintenance of the system files across a network and in particular:

* to make the system administration of a large network scalable.
* to offer a global view of all the configuration files across the network.
* to guarantee that some system files are identical across all hosts belonging to the same group. This is particularly important for files like inetd.conf or hosts.allow that implement some security policy.
* to configure identical hosts.
* to implement configuration changes on many computers simultaneously.
* to simplify the configuration of new hosts when they are added to the network.
* to maintain a backup copy of the entire configuration of the network.

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