Re: symlinks and the copy: directive

[Mark Burgess]

ok - I confirm that this is a bug/typo in cfservd. A patch has been
applied to the source.

M

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:24 -0800, Brian C. Hill wrote:
>       Hi Mark / everyone,
> 
>       I get this when running cfagent -v on the client.  It won't
> copy the links because the server is complaing that they don't
> point to anything. That's true on the server, but it won't be
> in the particular case of this client.
> 
>       WHen you say that it is the default behavior, I assume
> you mean that the copy: directive doesn't care whether the
> links resolve or not. Did you mean something else?  Is that
> what worked for you?
> 
> Brian
> 
> ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
> 
> cfengine:: Server returned error:  unable to stat file
> /usr/local/bin/openssl
> cfengine:: (Can't stat /usr/local/bin/openssl)
> cfengine:: Server returned error:  unable to stat file
> /usr/local/bin/c_rehash
> cfengine:: (Can't stat /usr/local/bin/c_rehash)
> cfengine:: Server returned error:  unable to stat file /usr/local/bin/go
> cfengine:: (Can't stat /usr/local/bin/go)
> 
> ======================================================================
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:55:34AM +0100, Mark Burgess wrote:
> > 
> > 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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