Re: Purging on recursive copies

[Chip Seraphine]

If the purge stuff is implemented as part of the tidy action, then I 
agree it makes no sense.  All I know is that if I comment out 
'verify=true' then the copies work properly and I no longer get a raft 
of messages like this:

   Purging /opt/cfengine/inputs/cf.pass3.cfnew in copy dest directory



Mark Burgess wrote:

> 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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