Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Error creating a directory (use forcedirs=true) Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24130,24136#msg-24136
Bill, 1. Like you, I don't see any mention of "forcedirs" in the reference manual. (I'm viewing in a browser the online version http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-reference.html (which admittedly is more "bleeding edge" than those associated with particular distributions), and don't seem able to find it. So I suspect that the error message is poor. I would recommend you to open a bug report at the cfengine bugtracker: https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/ . 2. I would still recommend, as good practice for the future, that you declare your auto-create directories with the trailing "slash-dot" syntax: "/home/rsync/." and "/home/rsync/.ssh/.". This is the recommendation in section 7.4.4. ("create") section of the reference manual. 3. "move_obstructions". I hadn't seen this option before. (I have several years experience with cfengine-2, but only a few months with cfengine-3.). But I'm not sure how good a match it is for your present intentions. Your initial report was about creating directories, with the implication (I may be wrong) that this would be in a clean, "green field" site. By contrast, the description of "move_obstructions" seems to about about working in a dirty, "brown-field" site, where you expect to have to do some clearance and demolition first. So, at this stage in the game, in that particular "expected green-field" case, my personal preference would be to keep it simple, avoiding (for the moment, at least) "move_obstructions", because that ought not to be necessary. Then, only if you find your site is dirtier than expected, begin to consider such things. (As I say, that is a personal opinion; others may well recommend differently; the course you take would depend on you local c ircumstances and experience.) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
