Re: symlinks and the copy: directive

[Brian C. Hill]

        Hi Paul, et al,

        That option works for the links directive only, and the links
directive doesn't seem to be able to do what I need done.

        I am trying to copy an already-populated directory of symbolic
links from one system to another with the copy directive. Some of the
links point to files that won't exist on all systems, including the
remote server itself, and I cannot get cfengine to copy links to a
system when they files they point to don't exist on the remote server.
Is there some way to tell cfenging to copy the links and not mind what
they point to?

Brian
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:21:31PM -0600, Paul Krizak wrote:
> 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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