Re: links? Links didn't find any file to match?

[Mark Burgess]

It is a clear sign that something had been wrong when a message sent on
the 28th Feb arrives on the 3 march!! I must see to moving the list.

M

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:16 +1300, Steve Wray wrote:
> Ok I have an extremely simple cfengine script:
> 
> control:
>     any::
>        actionsequence = ( links )
> 
> links:
>     any::
>        /var/backups/.amandahosts -> /etc/amandahosts
> 
> 
> the file /etc/amandahosts exists and the symbolic link 
> /var/backups/.amandahosts does not exist although the directory does.
> 
> Yet I get this from cfengine:
> 
> cfengine:somehost: Links didn't find any file to match 
> /var/backups/.amandahosts -> /etc/amandahosts
> 
> 
> This is cfengine 2.1.19
> 
> Verbose and debug output shows very little that may be of use in 
> figuring out whats gone wrong.
> 
> I just tried reverting to cfengine 2.1.18 and it works fine.
> 
> and I note this in the email regarding the availability of cfengine 2.1.19:
> 
> Bug in cfservd stat-mode on symbolic links not correctly
> evaluated.  Bug in linktype=copy for copy fixed.
> 
> 
> does the documenation on links need updating or is this a new bug?
> 
> 
>