Re: cfservd changed broke soft link access

[Mark Burgess]

Not sure who this is addressed to. One error was found and fixed.
Another reported error is not reproducible by me

M

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:10 -0500, christian pearce wrote:
> I am not certain if it is this change (178)
> 
> http://svn.iu.hio.no/viewcvs/trunk/src/cfservd.c?rev=178&r1=170&r2=178
> 
> Or this change (169)
> 
> http://svn.iu.hio.no/viewcvs/trunk/src/cfservd.c?rev=169&r1=167&r2=169
> 
> When I upgraded to 2.1.18 to test the cfservd memory leak fixes my
> client stopped working.  I now get this.
> 
> cfengine:: Checksum comparison replaced by ctime: files not regular
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs -> /var/cfengine/inputs
> cfengine:: image exists but destination type is silly
> (file/dir/link doesn't match)
> cfengine:: source=/var/cfengine/inputs, dest=/var/cfengine/inputs
> 
> The server has /var/cfengine/inputs that is a soft link to
> /usr/local/sysnav/conf/sysNav/cfengine2.
> 
> Can you describe in better detail the nature of the change?  I suppose
> I can just use a hardlink from now on.
> 
> Who know it might not even be a fix in cfservd.c but something in the
> copying part of the code.
> 
> I found this thread, and think it might be related:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/tree/browse_frm/thread/581f730b40b862b4/4e473dbea24c2016?rnum=1&q=I+confirm+that+this+is+a+bug%2Ftypo+in+cfservd.&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fgnu.cfengine.help%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F581f730b40b862b4%2Fa20fa028033348d3%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3DI+confirm+that+this+is+a+bug%2Ftypo+in+cfservd.%26rnum%3D1%26#doc_d59d907fb2dc4df5
> 
> 
> --
> Christian Pearce
> 
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