My point is that the promise is still changing permissions even though no 
permissions are specifically promised.  It seems that the agent defaults 
to setting the target permissions to match the source permissions.

Sincerely,
--
Neil Watson
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help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org wrote on 2010-01-13 04:40:00:

> 
> I'm not sure what you are saying here.
> 
> Neil Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:28:58AM +0100, Mark Burgess wrote:
> >>
> >> Neil. You are correct that this option was not implemented. The
> >> default value of all
> >> boolean type /true/false options is always false, so preserving
> >> original perms should not
> >> be the default behaviour. I have patched svn to fix this.
> > 
> > I think I spoke to soon.
> > ettin:/var/cf-masterfiles/config/trunk/inputs# ls -l /tmp/*foo*
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 neil neil 4 2010-01-11 20:27 /tmp/foobar
> > -r--r--r-- 1 neil neil 4 2010-01-11 20:26 /tmp/src-foobar
> > 
> > # cf-agent -Kvf ./test.cf|less cf3 cf3  -> Handling file existence
> > constraints on /tmp/foobar
> > cf3  -> Copy file /tmp/foobar from /tmp/src-foobar check
> > cf3  -> Destination file /tmp/foobar already exists
> > cf3  -> Object /tmp/foobar had permission 644, changed it to 444
> > cf3  -> File /tmp/foobar is an up to date copy of source
> > cf3 Performance(Copy(localhost:/tmp/src-foobar > /tmp/foobar)):
> > time=0.0003 secs, av=0.0003 +/- 0.0016
> > cf3 Existing connection just became free...
> > 
> > Can you reproduce this?  Have I made a mistake?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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