Re: owner and group in files and copy

[Chris Edillon]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:17, Christian Pearce wrote:
> Why does the owner or group get carried over to the next copy statement
> executed?  I briefly looked at the code, it looks like it saves the uid
> and gid.  So it was intentionally as far as I can tell.
> 
> I can't for the life of my figure out why we would want this.  I am
> going to be forced to explicitly set ownership for every copy statement
> I have.  Geehz!  Can someone explain why this is here?
> 
  i would think that if it wasn't there, you would be
forced to explicitly set ownership for every copy statement
anyway (assuming that not doing so implies the owner and
group that cfagent runs as).  by storing that information,
you can cluster copy statements which all set the same
owner and group.  i have no idea if this was intentional
or a feature.
  i do like the idea of templates, though; has this been
discussed on the list before?  i've found the ability to
use nesting templates in nagios very useful in keeping a
clean set of configuration files where identical information
is expressed numerous times.  i dont know that i'd find it
as useful in cfengine config files but it's worth discussing.

> There was the thought of having a template for copy statements
> 
> template:
> 
>         root_executable
>                 owner=root
>                 group=root
>                 mode=0755
>                 server=$(server)
> 
> copy:
> 
>         /var/tmp/somefile/
>                 dest=/var/tmp/somefile
>                 template=root_executable
> 
> This seems like a good idea.