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Bas van der Vlies |
Subject: |
Copy problems |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:33:30 +0200 (MET DST) |
Hello,
I'm having problems with the copy action when purge option is set to true.
On the client machine i have directories or files that are not on the
server machine. When i run cfengine all these files directories are
removed. I have played with ignore/exclude options but did not succeed.
When i create the file/directory on the server and then run cfengine.
Cfengine leaves the file/directory untouched, eg: Does not purge or modify the
file/directory.
Is this the way to do it? When i read the manual the ignore/exclude should do
the trick and not the creating of the files/directories on the server.
purge
If this option is set to true, cfengine will remove files in the
destination directory which are not also in the source directory. This
allows exact images of filesystems to be mantained. Note that if the copy
command has includes or excludes or ignored files, cfengine will purge
only those files on the client machine which are also on the server. This
means that some files (such as system specific work files) can be excluded
from copies without them being destroyed. Note that purging is disallowed
if contant with a remote server fails. This means that local files will not
be destroyed by a denial of service attack. You should not use this option
to synchronize NFS mounted file systems. If the NFS server goes down,
cfengine cannot then tell the difference between a valid empty directory
and a missing NFS file system. If you use purge, use a remote copy also
Regards
PS)
Tested with 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 on IRIX 6.5.6 and Debian 2.2r3
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