Chris, we would rather get everyone migrating to using Cfengine 3. Only mission critical support will be provided for Cfengine 2.
Chris Ward wrote: > > We had the same requirement in our environment, that is, the ability to > purge against a single file copy rule. Attached is a patch file we're > using against 2.2.10 to support this kind of behavior. It works for both > local and server-side copy rules. Just apply the patch to 'src/do.c'. > > Mark, if you'd like to integrate this into any future cfengine-2 > maintenance releases I'll send an email to bug-cfengine. > > -Chris > > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > >> To me the promise says make sure this file is present on the client. If >> the source file goes missing I'm not sure it is wise to have it >> automatically removed from the client. >> >> Sincerely, >> -- >> Neil Watson >> 416-673-3465 >> >> >> >> Tom Van de Velde <tom_vandeve...@yahoo.com> >> 2010-01-08 08:52 >> >> To >> nwat...@symcor.com >> cc >> help-cfengine@cfengine.org, help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org >> Subject >> Re: Problem with purge and failover in copy statement >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Neil, >> >> I came to te exact same conclusion :-) ... >> So I tried to do some funcky class setting and set up a tidy behind, but >> even there cfengine is failing on me ;-) >> >> I can see in the debug output that the file is not there, he gives an >> error but the classes are not set correctly so my tidy action is not >> activated... >> >> It seems like a trivial problem for cfengine, nevertheless I spended >> already some time in investigating this ... >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> >> --- On Fri, 1/8/10, nwat...@symcor.com <nwat...@symcor.com> wrote: >> >>> From: nwat...@symcor.com <nwat...@symcor.com> >>> Subject: Re: Problem with purge and failover in copy statement >>> To: "Tom Van de Velde" <tom_vandeve...@yahoo.com> >>> Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org, help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org >>> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 2:40 PM >>> I think that purge only works with >>> recursive copies. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> -- >>> Neil Watson >>> 416-673-3465 >>> >>> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >>> >>> >>> >>> CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING >>> This communication, including any attachments, is for the >>> exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary >>> and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended >>> recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or >>> distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the >>> intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by >>> return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all >>> copies. >>> >>> AVERTISSEMENT RELATIF À LA CONFIDENTIALITÉ >>> Ce message, ainsi que les pièces qui y sont jointes, est >>> destiné à l?usage exclusif de la personne à laquelle il >>> s?adresse et peut contenir de l?information personnelle >>> ou confidentielle. Si le lecteur de ce message n?en est >>> pas le destinataire, nous l?avisons par la présente que >>> toute diffusion, distribution, reproduction ou utilisation >>> de son contenu est strictement interdite. Veuillez avertir >>> sur-le-champ l?expéditeur par retour de courrier >>> électronique et supprimez ce message ainsi que toutes les >>> pièces jointes. >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> Help-cfengine@cfengine.org >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
