Re: [Cfengine] RE: cfsaved files : cfengine 2.0.4

[Bas van der Vlies]

Buddy,

 There is a variable for it:
 control:
    repository = ( "/path/to/where/you/want/to/store/the/files" )

        Regards

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:53:24 -0800
"Lumpkin, Buddy" <Buddy.Lumpkin@nordstrom.com> wrote:

> 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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