Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Limiting recursion into certain directories / filesystems Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21058,21058#msg-21058
I have a need to search entire machines to identify if certain files are present anywhere. For the sake of discussion, let's say I want to identify anything world-writeable. A few of these systems have file sytems in the petabyte range / trillions of files where the application which uses the filesystem requires the world-write bit to be set. I don't want to include these files in my report partially because it would make the report useless, but I also don't even want Cfengine entering this filesystem, beause simply running a find can potentially take upwards of 24 hours. Unfortunately, I don't have a test system where I can completely replicate this scenario, and I'd rather not blindly test on a rather critical system. :) So, I thought I'd ask up here first: If I just specify a directory to skip using the standard library's exclude() file_select body, will the recursion code continue to traverse the directory or will it work more like the -prune argument to find and just sip traversal of the directory? If not, is there a way to tell Cfengine to traverse a directory with infinite recursion, except for certain directories? Or is there a way to tell it to stay within a filesystem's boundaries while performing recursion? _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
