Re: files actions

[David E. Nelson]

Hi Ed,

Just thought of something. How about:

groups:

  SystemExists = ( FileExists(/etc/system) )

control:

  actionsequence = ( files )

files:

  !SystemExists::

    /etc/system
      owner=root
      group=other
      mode=0644
      action=touch

  !SystemExists
    /etc/system
      owner=root
      group=other
      mode=644
      action=fixplain

Regards,
         /\/elson


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Ed Brown wrote:

> Hmmm, so NO easy answer I take it....
>
> 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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