files: patterns getting ignored

[Christopher Browne]

I'm planning to do some "personal account" cleanup via cfengine; I've
got a script that I invoke via the "#!/usr/bin/cfengine" magic, and it
does various bits of process management AOK.

But then I get to the files: section, and things go a bit haywire.

My files section looks like:

files:
        /home/cbbrowne/public_html   r=inf include="*.sgml" m=600 action=fixall
        /home/cbbrowne/public_html   r=inf include="*.html" m=664 action=fixall
        /home/cbbrowne/public_html   r=inf include="*.rtf" m=664 action=fixall
        /home/cbbrowne/public_html   r=inf include="*.css" m=664 action=fixall
        /home/cbbrowne/public_html   r=inf include="*.txt" m=664 action=fixall


When I run this, it proceeds to gripe thusly:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Checking files
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html
Checking file(s) in /home/cbbrowne/public_html
cfengine:chvatal: Skipping ignored root-search directory 
/home/cbbrowne/public_html

It sounds as though there's something special about running as an
ordinary user, though I certainly could be wrong...
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