Re: symlinks and the copy: directive

[Mark Burgess]

Yes - always begin with the manual.

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. 


On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:09 -0800, 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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