Re: action copy options

[Bob Van Cleef]

I think the real solution is to write a custom script
to do exactly what you want and then set a flag to run the script
when needed.  That is what I do to handle shadow password files.

copy:
   # bypass the master system
   linux.!thea::
      $(distrib)/x86/etc/passwd         define=updateshadow
                dest=/etc/passwd.new    mode=0444 owner=root server=thea

shellcommands:
        linux.updateshadow::
                "/bin/cp /etc/passwd.new /etc/passwd"
                "/usr/sbin/pwconv"


In his case, how about:
shellcommands:
        clearhosts:
                "/bin/rm /etc/hostname.*"


On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> > Then why not 
> > 
> > include=tot include=tutu
> > 
> > 
> > also?
> > 
> >  
> >> Your problem is that you want to delete only some files on the
> >> client side, and cfengine has no way of specifying that easily.
> > 
> > I think it does - I think the docs on this could be better. But
> > try the above.
> 
> I thought the problem was that the OP only wanted to delete hostname.*
> and leave everything else in /etc intact.  That would require a huge
> include list, that's what I meant.  A negative include
> (no-include=hostname.*) would solve the problem.  But you're right,
> it's possible to do it with include= directives as well.
> 
> Ted
> 
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