Re: Copy-once template directories

[Geoff Davis]

Excellent, thanks to all for your suggestions.

FileExists seems to be the cleanest of the solutions. The one caveat  
to it seems to be that I can't use variables in FileExists since  
variables get defined in the command block, but I think can I work  
around that.


On Sep 19, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Martin, Jason H wrote:

> Instead of a Files action, use the FileExists function in a class
> definition:
>
> HasXYZFile = ( FileExists(/var/tmp/xyz) )
>
> Then, predicate your copy action on !HasXYZFile.
>
> -Jason Martin
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.
> > org] On Behalf Of Geoff Davis
>
>
>
> > I was thinking of using a files action to check for the existence of
> > the data directory and set define a class, but our
> > action_sequence is
> > defined such that the copy action is run before the files action.
> > This is because we have some files that we copy over, then check the
> > permissions with the files action. Switching their order would leave
> > us in the wrong state.
>
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