Re: Please help! -- 2.1.11 cfengine delete /tmp symbolic linkmisteriously

[Mark Burgess]

I don't know what to say without further investigation (which will take
a few weeks). Are you sure that /var/tmp is not a link to /tmp or vice versa?

M

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:25:25PM -0800, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> Mark and Sven,
> 
>  Sven is right, I do mean that: /var/tmp/ should not be touched at all. Only 
> files, subDirectories, symbolic links and sockets UNDER /var/tmp/ will be 
> handled.
> 
> Unfortunately, according to the debug output, /var/tmp/ and /tmp (I don't 
> know why unrelated /tmp is processes by cfengine ??) are also processed for 
> tidy operation, maybe also "/var/*" and "/*"? this is a little 
> counter-intuitive since cfengine here is "upwards" as well instead ONLY 
> "downwards" to only its file|subDir|links|sockets contents. Cfengine should 
> process, by default intuitively, only contents UNDER the specified directory. 
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, or misunderstand tidy operation. Please help.
> 
> --Guolin Cheng
>  
> 
> 
> 
> address@hidden [u] wrote on 12/11/2004 06:07:
> 
> That seems to be only partly true. He did ask cfagent to clear directory 
> links, but only for /var/tmp, but /tmp got deleted, while /var/tmp 
> remained intact. At least if I read his mail correctly.
> 
> cu,
> Sven
> 
> > You have explicitly asked for dirlinks=tidy, so this is
> > correct. There was a bug here earlier.
> > 
> > M
> > 
> > On 11 Nov, ha haha wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>  Yesterday I've updated my cfengine from 2.1.7p1 to
> >>2.1.11. The new packages compiled and installed
> >>successfully. But unfortunately, it mis-interpret my
> >>configuration files which worked for 2.1.7p1 with no
> >>faults. And deleted my /tmp symbolic link by mistake.
> >>
> >>  The background information is:
> >>
> >>     1),    I have two links /tmp -> ../0/.final/tmp, 
> >>/var/tmp -> ../0/.final/tmp, while /0/.final/tmp is a
> >>directory.
> >>
> >>      2),   /var, /, and /0 are three dfferent
> >>partitions.
> >>
> >>      3),   my "tidy" related sections for the
> >>/var/tmp/ is:
> >>
> >>??????????..
> >>control:
> >>
> >>   actionsequence = ( directories files links tidy
> >>disable copy editfiles processes shellcommands 
> >>??????..)
> >>
> >>tidy:
> >>    any::
> >>
> >>        /var/tmp/
> >>            pattern=*
> >>            filter=tmpSpaceTidy
> >>            recurse=inf
> >>            type=mtime
> >>            rmdirs=true
> >>            links=tidy
> >>            dirlinks=tidy
> >>            age=39
> >>            inform=true
> >>
> >>??????.
> >>filters:
> >>
> >>   { tmpSpaceTidy
> >>          Type: "reg|dir|link|socket"
> >>          Result: "Type"
> >>   }
> >>??????????..
> >>
> >> After I run "cfagent  -v -q", then I got the
> >>following line (15 bytes is the total bytes of
> >>symbolic link destination "../0/.final/tmp":
> >>
> >>*********************************************************************
> >> Main Tree Sched: tidy pass 1 @ Thu Nov 11 18:18:53
> >>2004
> >>*********************************************************************
> >>??????..
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Tidying by directory
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>cfengine:alws10: Deleting file /var/tmp
> >>cfengine:alws10: Size=15 bytes,
> >>            
> >>            ????
> >>
> >>It is very strange, since not symbolic link "var/tmp"
> >>is deleted, but /tmp llink which points to same
> >>destination!
> >>
> >>Then I tried to output the debug desult with "cfagent
> >>-v -d10 -q", and got the following output:
> >>
> >>            ????????????..
> >>
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Tidying by directory
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>No patterns active in base directory
> >>/var/lib/cfengine2/outputs
> >>
> >>Tidying from base directory /var/tmp
> >>ExpandVarstring(/var/tmp)
> >>ExpandVarstring(/tmp)
> >>GetLock(tidy,_var_tmp,time=1100226190),
> >>ExpireAfter=120, IfElapsed=1
> >>GetLastLock()
> >>CheckOldLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> >>Unable to find lock data
> >>lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298
> >>SetLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> >>PutLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> >>Found no lock
> >>[lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298]:
> >>DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> >>Registering root device as 2059
> >>RecursiveTidySpecialArea(/var/tmp)
> >>Changed directory to /var/tmp
> >>Checking the inode and device to make sure we are
> >>where we think we are...
> >>IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp)
> >>IgnoreFile(/var/tmp,)
> >>Tidy: opening dir /var/tmp
> >>Filename /var/tmp/. is classified as ignorable
> >>Filename /var/tmp/.. is classified as ignorable
> >>IgnoreFile(/var/tmp,cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> >>WildMatch(*,cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> >>FileObjectFilter(/var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> >>Applying filter tmpSpaceTidy
> >>Filter result on /var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm
> >>was 1
> >>IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
> >>Checking tidy topmost directory /var/tmp
> >>Checking for dead links
> >>KillOldLink(/var/tmp)
> >>WildMatch(*,tmp)
> >>FileObjectFilter(/var/tmp)
> >>Applying filter tmpSpaceTidy
> >>Filter result on /var/tmp was 1
> >>IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp)
> >>Link to directory, dirlinks= says delete these
> >>cfengine:alws10: Deleting file /var/tmp
> >>cfengine:alws10: Size=15 bytes,
> >>ReleaseCurrentLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> >>PutLock(last.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
> >>LockLog(Lock removed normally )
> >>
> >>    ??????????
> >>
> >>
> >>I have no otherchoise, but have to temporarily fix the
> >>problem by the following changes:
> >>
> >>    rmdir=sub   ## original is "true"
> >>    xdev=false  ## orignally doesn't exist
> >>    
> >>It is only a temporary fix for the above problem.
> >>Please help.
> >> 
> >> 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>            
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