Re: Recursion Problem??

[Adam M. Dunn]

Yes, thanks.  That ignore worked.  It would be nice though if cfengine had
an option to treat files and directory names differently, such as an omit
directory option.  I would much rather be able to create random sub
directories and not have them copied without specifying them explicitly.


thanks,

~adam



On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ed Brown wrote:

> With a directory for a source/dest, and 'r=1', cfengine will create any
> subdirectories in that top-level directory, but does not recurse into
> them (they will be empty).  If you don't want the subdirectory created,
> try 'ignore=modules' (or whatever the subdirectory is that you don't
> want created.)
> 
> -Ed 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:56, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
> > Anyone,
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> >     
> > I'm running into a problem with the recursion option in a copy command.
> > For example, using the default model of copying the updated configs from:
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> >     
> > server:/var/cfengine/masterfiles --> client:/var/cfengine/inputs
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> >     
> > just as an example, and setting a recursion to r=0, nothing copies.
> > However, if I keep it at r=1, or r=inf, then everything copies, but I
> > don't want that.  Basically I just want to copy only single files from a
> > source directory to the client and ignore any subdirectories, but it's not
> > letting me.
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> >     
> > Is this common behavior, or am I doing something wrong?
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> >     
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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