Re: Links problem with 2.1.19

[Chris St. Pierre]

I am having the exact same problem.  I upgraded from 2.1.9.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Jim Wight wrote:

>Something has gone wrong with links between 2.1.15, which I've been
>using, and 2.1.19, which I've installed in order to try out. 
>
>All my links actions, which succeed when using 2.1.15, are failing at
>2.1.19 with messages of the form:
>
>  Links didn't find any file to match /path/to/foo -> /path/to/bar
>
>For the action:
>
>links:
>       /tmp/somelink   ->      /var
>
>-d2 output for 2.1.15 contains
>
>Actionsequence item links
>ExpandVarstring(/tmp/somelink)
>ExpandVarstring(/var)
>ExpandVarbinserv /var, (Binserver is myhost)
>Linkfiles(/tmp/somelink,/var)
>IgnoredOrExcluded(somelink)
>Trying to link /tmp/somelink -> /var (/var)
>cfengine:myhost: Link (/tmp/somelink->/var) exists.
>KillOldLink(/tmp/somelink)
>CompressPath(/tmp/somelink./var,/var)
>Job start time set to Tue Feb 28 08:18:34 2006
>
>whereas 2.1.19 has
>
>Actionsequence item links
>ExpandVarstring(/tmp/somelink)
>ExpandVarstring(/var)
>cfengine:myhost: Links didn't find any file to match /tmp/somelink -> /var
>Job start time set to Tue Feb 28 08:19:07 2006
>
>IsWildItem(link*,links)
>Job start time set to Tue Feb 28 08:19:07 2006
>
>IsWildItem(link*,links)
>
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>Jim
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