Re: symlinks and the copy: directive

[Mark Burgess]

Actually, on closer examination, this is the default behaviour for copy,
when copying links,  as far as I can see. I just tested it and it works.

M

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:12 +0100, Mark Burgess wrote:
> 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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