RE: Suggestion: configurable default copy 'type=' value

[Mark Burgess]

Send me patches for stuff to improve the docs. Always useful to get
experience from actual usage.

M

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:02 -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> Here I thought I was being careful by rereading the copy: stanza before
> I posted that even... I'm thinking that there should be some more
> linkage in the doc between the individual actions stanzas and some of
> the special variables that impact their behavior.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Jason Martin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brendan Strejcek [mailto:brendan@cs.uchicago.edu] 
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:42 PM
> > To: Paul Krizak
> > Cc: Martin, Jason H; help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Suggestion: configurable default copy 'type=' value
> > 
> > 
> > How about this:
> > 
> >     
> > http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#defaultcopytype
> > 
> > Best,
> > Brendan
> > 
> > --
> > Senior System Administrator
> > The University of Chicago
> > Department of Computer Science 
> > http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/people/brendan
> > 
> > 
> > Paul Krizak 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I second this request, but in a more general sense.  Perhaps a 
> > > defaults:
> > > section where you could set things like this?
> > > 
> > > Sounds to me like a version 3 thing, which I don't mind waiting for.
> > > 
> > > Paul Krizak                         5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
> > > Advanced Micro Devices              Austin, Tx  78741
> > > CAD Systems Engineering             Phone: (512) 602-8775
> > > Paul.Krizak@amd.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Martin, Jason H wrote:
> > > >Would it be possible to make the default copy 'type' configurable? 
> > > >I'd like to be able to default all of the copy actions to 
> > > >type=checksum instead of type=ctime. Having a default 
> > value saves me 
> > > >from having to enter the same data for each stanza and risk 
> > > >forgetting it.
> > > >
> > > >Thank you,
> > > >-Jason Martin
> > > >
> > > >
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