Re: symlinks and the copy: directive

[Paul Krizak]

Ah...I need to read more closely.  I didn't see that you were working in 
the "copy" area and not the "links" area.

Yeah...no ideas about how to do this with "copy"...

Paul Krizak                         5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
Advanced Micro Devices              Austin, TX  78741
Linux/Unix Systems Engineering      Phone: (512) 602-8775
Microprocessor Solutions Sector


Brian C. Hill wrote:
>         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
> ======================================================================
> 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
> >
> > Paul Krizak                         5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
> > Advanced Micro Devices              Austin, TX  78741
> > Linux/Unix Systems Engineering      Phone: (512) 602-8775
> > Microprocessor Solutions Sector
> >
> >
> > 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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