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Re: files actions
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Chip Seraphine |
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Re: files actions |
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Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:46:42 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 28 September 2004 15:51, Ed Brown wrote:
> Hmmm, so NO easy answer I take it....
In situations like the one you describe below, I generally have two
near-identical files: clauses, each with a different action (one for 'fixall'
and one for 'create'). Obviously, put the 'create' first or you might get an
extra error the first time it runs.
>
> If you care enough to create a file, with particular permissions, if it
> doesn't exist, why wouldn't also want to verify the permissions on the
> existing file, or continue to verify, as the case may be? Seems like
> an odd omission, one that I was surprised to find that neither 'fixall'
> or 'create' encompasses. Touching a file every time cfengine runs is
> clearly not the right solution.
>
> Any chance of addressing this in the future?
>
> thanks,
> Ed
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:18, Ed Brown wrote:
> > There's probably an easy answer, but at the moment it is eluding me: how
> > can a file be both created if missing, and have its modes/ownership
> > verified? action=create does one, action=fixall does the other,
> > action=touch gets close, but I don't want the file to be touched
> > (timestamp updated) every time cfagent runs.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Ed
> >
> >
> >
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