Re: symlinks and the copy: directive

[Paul Krizak]

According to the documentation:

nofile=kill/force
    This decides what happens to links which point to non-existent 
files. The default action is to remove such links, or refuse to create 
them. By setting the force option you can force cfengine to make 
symbolic links to files which do not exist. This is useful for setting 
up links to filesystems which are not permanently mounted.


So you can presumably do something like

links:

someclass::

/some/file -> /some/other/file nofile=force

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Brian C. Hill wrote:
>         I posted this last week; no one responded. Is there a better
> way to achieve this?
>
>         I want to copy a tree of symbolic links, some of which will not
> actually point to anything on some systems.  Is there a way to get
> cfengine to copy the symbolic link without worrying about whether the
> link is 'dangling' or not?
>
> Brian
>
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