Re: How to delete directories with ${name}

[khalid . sattar]

At 13/03/2003 18:31:45, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
  > Why not do something simple like
  >
  > pattern=??Repository?
  >

Hadn't thought of that, so yes probably will do that.  But I  still curious if
the problem lies in having meta char or the fact that I have a macro and a
string in a pattern and they dont parse correctly?


  >
  > On 13 Mar, khalid.sattar@globalgraphics.com wrote:
  > > Hello
  > >
  > > when I intially created my cfengine scripts, I misconfigured and ended up
  > with a
  > > number of machines getting an empty directory called /${Repository}
  > >
  > > Now i can simply delete them by hand but I thought doing it via cfengine
  > would
  > > be appropriate.  So I have (as a test) created /tmp/${Repository} and a
test
  > > scripts
  > >
  > >
  > > control:
  > >
  > >      actionsequence = ( tidy )
  > >
  > > tidy:
  > >      "/tmp" pattern=$(dollar){Repository} age=0 rmdirs=true recurse=0
  > >       "/tmp" pattern=khalid age=0 rmdirs=true recurse=0
  > >
  > > The diretory khalid gets removed but not ${Repository}. Am I specifying
the
  > > pattern wrong in some way?
  > > I have tried a macro assigmentt and then using that macro as the pattern
  > name
  > > but to no avail.
  > >
  > >
  > > running with -d 2 gives (version of cfengine is 2.0.2 on solaris)
  > >
  > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  > > Tidying by directory
  > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  > >
  > > Directory /tmp
  > > Directory /tmp
  > > ExpandWildCardsAndDo(/tmp=/tmp)
  > > ExpandWildCardsAndDo(=)
  > > TidyWrapper(/tmp)
  > > GetLock(tidy,_tmp,time=1047579376), ExpireAfter=120, IfElapsed=1
  > > GetLastLock()
  > > CheckOldLock(lock._tmp_cf_rep.fin.tidy._tmp)
  > > Unable to find lock data lock._tmp_cf_rep.fin.tidy._tmp
  > > SetLock(lock._tmp_cf_rep.fin.tidy._tmp)
  > > PutLock(lock._tmp_cf_rep.fin.tidy._tmp)
  > > Unable to delete lock [lock._tmp_cf_rep.fin.tidy._tmp]: DB_NOTFOUND: No
  > matching
  > >  key/data pair found
  > > IgnoredOrExcluded(/tmp)
  > > IgnoreFile()
  > > Tidy: opening dir /tmp
  > > Filename /tmp/. is classified as ignorable
  > > Filename /tmp/.. is classified as ignorable
  > > IgnoreFile(ps_data)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/ps_data,ps_data)
  > > IgnoreFile(smc898)
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/smc898
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/smc898,smc898)
  > > IgnoreFile(.pcmcia)
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/.pcmcia
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/.pcmcia,.pcmcia)
  > > IgnoreFile(.X11-unix)
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/.X11-unix
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/.X11-unix,.X11-unix)
  > > IgnoreFile(.X11-pipe)
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/.X11-pipe
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/.X11-pipe,.X11-pipe)
  > > IgnoreFile(khalid.path)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/khalid.path,khalid.path)
  > > IgnoreFile(r)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/r,r)
  > > IgnoreFile(DNS)
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/DNS
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/DNS,DNS)
  > > IgnoreFile(passwd.temp)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/passwd.temp,passwd.temp)
  > > IgnoreFile(admin1.mas.xanalys.com)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/admin1.mas.xanalys.com,admin1.mas.xanalys.com)
  > > IgnoreFile(sendmail-cf-j.21979)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/sendmail-cf-j.21979,sendmail-cf-j.21979)
  > > IgnoreFile(sendmail-cf-R.21979)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/sendmail-cf-R.21979,sendmail-cf-R.21979)
  > > IgnoreFile(cf.rep)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/cf.rep,cf.rep)
  > > IgnoreFile(ccc)
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/ccc,ccc)
  > > IgnoreFile(${Repository})
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/${Repository}
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/${Repository},${Repository})
  > > IgnoreFile(khalid)
  > > NotMountedFileSystem
  > > MAXRECURSE ran out, quitting at /tmp/khalid
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp/khalid,khalid)
  > > FileObjectFilter(/tmp/khalid)
  > > IgnoredOrExcluded(/tmp/khalid)
  > > cfengine: EmptyDir(/tmp/khalid)
  > > Filename /tmp/khalid/. is classified as ignorable
  > > Filename /tmp/khalid/.. is classified as ignorable
  > > Matched khalid to khalid in /tmp/khalid
  > > DoTidyFile(/tmp/khalid,khalid)
  > > Checking tidy topmost directory /tmp
  > > TidyParticularFile(/tmp,tmp)
  > > ReleaseCurrentLock(lock._tmp_cf_rep.fin.tidy._tmp)
  > > PutLock(last._tmp_cf_rep.100.fin.tidy._tmp)
  > > LockLog(Lock removed normally )
  > > End PATHTIDY:
  > > No home patterns to search
  > > Job start time set to Thu Mar 13 18:16:16 2003
  > > *
  > >
  > >
  > >
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