Re: Please help! -- 2.1.11 cfengine delete /tmp symbolic link misteriously

[Mark . Burgess]

You have explicitly asked for dirlinks=tidy, so this is
correct. There was a bug here earlier.

M

On 11 Nov, ha haha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Yesterday I've updated my cfengine from 2.1.7p1 to
> 2.1.11. The new packages compiled and installed
> successfully. But unfortunately, it mis-interpret my
> configuration files which worked for 2.1.7p1 with no
> faults. And deleted my /tmp symbolic link by mistake.
> 
>   The background information is:
> 
>      1),      I have two links /tmp -> ../0/.final/tmp, 
> /var/tmp -> ../0/.final/tmp, while /0/.final/tmp is a
> directory.
> 
>       2),   /var, /, and /0 are three dfferent
> partitions.
> 
>       3),   my "tidy" related sections for the
> /var/tmp/ is:
> 
> ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..
> control:
> 
>    actionsequence = ( directories files links tidy
> disable copy editfiles processes shellcommands 
> ¡­¡­¡­..)
> 
> tidy:
>     any::
> 
>         /var/tmp/
>             pattern=*
>             filter=tmpSpaceTidy
>             recurse=inf
>             type=mtime
>             rmdirs=true
>             links=tidy
>             dirlinks=tidy
>             age=39
>             inform=true
> 
> ¡­¡­¡­.
> filters:
> 
>    { tmpSpaceTidy
>           Type: "reg|dir|link|socket"
>           Result: "Type"
>    }
> ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..
> 
>  After I run "cfagent  -v -q", then I got the
> following line (15 bytes is the total bytes of
> symbolic link destination "../0/.final/tmp":
> 
> *********************************************************************
>  Main Tree Sched: tidy pass 1 @ Thu Nov 11 18:18:53
> 2004
> *********************************************************************
> ¡­¡­¡­..
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tidying by directory
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> cfengine:alws10: Deleting file /var/tmp
> cfengine:alws10: Size=15 bytes,
>               
>               ¡­¡­
> 
> It is very strange, since not symbolic link "var/tmp"
> is deleted, but /tmp llink which points to same
> destination!
> 
> Then I tried to output the debug desult with "cfagent
> -v -d10 -q", and got the following output:
> 
>             ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tidying by directory
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> No patterns active in base directory
> /var/lib/cfengine2/outputs
> 
> Tidying from base directory /var/tmp
> ExpandVarstring(/var/tmp)
> ExpandVarstring(/tmp)
> GetLock(tidy,_var_tmp,time=1100226190),
> ExpireAfter=120, IfElapsed=1
> GetLastLock()
> CheckOldLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> Unable to find lock data
> lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298
> SetLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> PutLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> Found no lock
> [lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298]:
> DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Registering root device as 2059
> RecursiveTidySpecialArea(/var/tmp)
> Changed directory to /var/tmp
> Checking the inode and device to make sure we are
> where we think we are...
> IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp)
> IgnoreFile(/var/tmp,)
> Tidy: opening dir /var/tmp
> Filename /var/tmp/. is classified as ignorable
> Filename /var/tmp/.. is classified as ignorable
> IgnoreFile(/var/tmp,cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> WildMatch(*,cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> FileObjectFilter(/var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> Applying filter tmpSpaceTidy
> Filter result on /var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm
> was 1
> IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> Checking tidy topmost directory /var/tmp
> Checking for dead links
> KillOldLink(/var/tmp)
> WildMatch(*,tmp)
> FileObjectFilter(/var/tmp)
> Applying filter tmpSpaceTidy
> Filter result on /var/tmp was 1
> IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp)
> Link to directory, dirlinks= says delete these
> cfengine:alws10: Deleting file /var/tmp
> cfengine:alws10: Size=15 bytes,
> ReleaseCurrentLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> PutLock(last.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> LockLog(Lock removed normally )
> 
>       ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­
> 
> 
> I have no otherchoise, but have to temporarily fix the
> problem by the following changes:
> 
>     rmdir=sub   ## original is "true"
>     xdev=false  ## orignally doesn't exist
>     
> It is only a temporary fix for the above problem.
> Please help.
>  
>  
> 
> 
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