Re: files actions

[Ed Brown]

Hmmm, so NO easy answer I take it....

If you care enough to create a file, with particular permissions, if it
doesn't exist, why wouldn't also want to verify the permissions on the
existing file, or continue to verify, as the case may be?   Seems like
an odd omission, one that I was surprised to find that neither 'fixall'
or 'create' encompasses.   Touching a file every time cfengine runs is
clearly not the right solution.

Any chance of addressing this in the future?

thanks,
Ed


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:18, Ed Brown wrote:
> There's probably an easy answer, but at the moment it is eluding me: how
> can a file be both created if missing, and have its modes/ownership
> verified?  action=create does one, action=fixall does the other,
> action=touch gets close, but I don't want the file to be touched
> (timestamp updated) every time cfagent runs.
> 
> thanks,
> Ed
> 
> 
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