Re: Purging on recursive copies

[Mark Burgess]

I don't understand why both tidy and copy would be happening
at the same time...

M

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:00:49PM -0600, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> I've had this problem for a while now, but I haven't seen anyone else 
> discuss it on the list so I'm not sure if it is a bug or I'm somehow 
> Doing It Wrong.
> 
> When recursively copying (r=inf)a directory from a cfengine server with 
> 'purge' and 'verify' both set to true, the agent likes to destroy the 
> filename.cfnew files before they are moved over the targets.  Kinda 
> annoying, because in practice it means I can't do purges on directories 
> with really important files in them.  This has been going on for at 
> least as long as I've been using cfengine (2.0.5 or so).
> 
> Let me know if anyone is unable to reproduce this and I'll post some 
> debug output.
> 
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> 
> Chip Seraphine
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