RE: tidy and exclude?

[Bas van der Vlies]

Antony,

 I always use the ignore directive:

control:

  actionsequence = ( tidy )

tidy:

  /home/sara/bas/cfengine/tmp pattern=* age=0

ignore:
  /home/sara/bas/cfengine/tmp/bas

 
On 22-Aug-2001 Antony Nguyen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to keep a directory empty except for one file.  I've tried:
> 
> tidy:
>       myserver::
>               /mydir pattern=* exclude=myfile age=0
> 
> When I run cfengine, I get:
> 
> cf:myserver.com:cfengine.conf:89:  Illegal tidy attribute
> 
> ... which only happens when I keep the 'exclude' attribute in that line.
> However, the Reference doc lists 'exclude' as an option to tidy (but
> there's no formal description of it like the other attributes).  Am I
> correct in thinking tidy doesn't support exclude?
> 
> If so, what's a good workaround?
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> tidy:
>       myserver::
>               /mydir pattern=[^(myfile)]* age=0
> 
> But cfengine chokes on that.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> --tony
> 
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