RE: cfsaved files : cfengine 2.0.4

[Lumpkin, Buddy]

Can you put the cfsaved file under a tmp directory somewhere rather than 
littering the directories where the file is being copied?

An example is whenever I reboot a system, I see the message cron: root.cfsaved, 
no such user.

This is just an example of the kinds of unexpected effect an incomplete file 
xfer can cause. This one is somewhat benine but im sure there are scenarios 
where this isn't the right solution. What is the file is large? I wouldn't want 
it arbitrarily just dropped where the destination file goes. It would be nice 
to have an optional parameter that can be set for temp files so that people can 
choose the default behavior or have all stuff centralized in one place.

Thoughts?

--Buddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no [mailto:Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no]
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 2:08 AM
To: Rick.Nekus@Worldgaming.com
Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cfsaved files : cfengine 2.0.4



Not currently, but this is a good idea that I shall add in the next
release. I hope you can hold out until about Xmas. I am very
busy right now.

Mark

On  2 Nov, Rick Nekus wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> -Is there a way when a file is being copied via cfengine that the default
> "*.cfsaved" file can be
> appended with a "*.cfsaved.($date)($timestamp)"   this would give it a
> unique name that wouldn't get overwritten the next time the file gets
> update. ?
> -there's mention of a 'cfrc' resource file ; classes.c; and/or cf.defs.h
> but this may only be for renaming classes .
> -I'm using cfengine 2.0.4 on redhat 7.3
>  
> thankyou,
>  
> Rick
>  
> Rick.nekus@worldgaming.com



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