Therein lies the problem. If you look at all of the users on a system, there
are several that aren't under /home. Just looking on my workstation, the
following home directories are on the system:
$ cat /etc/passwd | grep false | awk -F: '{ print $6 }'
/var/spool/exim4
/var/lib/nfs
/var/run/dbus
/var/run/stunnel4
/var/run/avahi-daemon
/home/festival
/var/lib/gdm
/var/run/PolicyKit
/var/run/hald
/var/lib/ntop
/home/ntp
/etc/privoxy
/home/saned
/var/run/vde2
/var/run/hplip
/var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/snmp
/var/lib/libvirt
I would like to perform operations on *all* of the home directories.
Especially since I am updating our cfengine compliance file for NIST
SP800-53 at work...
I'll have a look at mountpattern in the manual
Thanks,
--b
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:30 PM, michoski <micho...@cisco.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/10 7:04 AM, "B. Alexander" <stor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is the output of editfiles:
> >
> > *********************************************************************
> > Main Tree Sched: editfiles pass 1 @ Wed Jan 27 09:31:23 2010
> > *********************************************************************
> >
> > Begin editing /etc/skel/.bashrc
> > End editing /etc/skel/.bashrc
> > .....................................................................
> > cfengine:worf: Program does not define mountpattern
> > cfengine:worf: Mountpattern is undefined
> > Begin editing /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> > .....................................................................
> > Begin editing /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> > End editing /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> > .....................................................................
>
> From the message, I suspected the "home" shortcut you alluded to from the
> reference manual (I saw it to, and was never brave enough to try it) had
> some other dependency... As is often the case with free community
> documentation, written by experts which long-ago forgot what it was like
> not
> to actually understand what it is they're talking about. ;)
>
> Really though... It seems "home" can't expand to anything unless you've
> defined mountpattern (it doesn't just magically map to a users home). I'm
> not sure you'd typically want/need to do that, unless you have cfengine
> managing mounts already.
>
> """
> 4.10.50 mountpattern
>
> mountpattern = ( mount-point )
>
> The mountpattern list is used by the cfengine model for mounting nfs
> filesystems. See ⟨undefined⟩ [NFS resources], page ⟨undefined⟩. It is also
> used in the evaluation of the pseudo variable home, See Section 4.19
> [files], page 94, Section 4.39 [tidy], page 146.
> """
>
> It may be easier just to specify a path if all your home directories are in
> the same place, or define your own variable and set it based upon something
> like architecture.
>
>
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