Hi - I'm afraid it was an afterthought. You can get it from the svn repository, where the current version sets this back to "false" as default.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No need to apologize, all of the effort you have put into cfengine has > made thousands of administrators jobs much easier... Actually, I should > apologize for calling it a "bug", whereas it's just a feature change. > One little hiccup in the 3 years that I have been using this software is > not the end of the world. I do appreciate your reply. Is the > "checkroot=false" option available in 2.2.2? I keep getting: > Illegal copy attribute > If it's not, I'll have to stick with 2.2.1 for now. > > Again, thanks for the reply! > > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Mark Burgess wrote: > >> >> Since this has tripped several people up, I am setting the default >> behaviour back to checkroot=false in svn for 2.2.3. It is very >> unfortunate that this has had unexpected consequences, and I apologize >> for the inconvenience generated. >> >> M >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Unfortunately I recently upgraded to 2.2.2 (from 2.2.1) which literally >>> trashed about 10 of our system before I figured out what happened! >>> Apparently something is broken in 2.2.2 that causes problems with the >>> copy >>> commands like this: >>> >>> copy: >>> myserver:: >>> $(hostmasterfiles)/etc dest=/etc/ r=inf >>> mode=600 owner=root group=root >>> type=checksum >>> >>> What "used to" simply copy all of my files from my >>> "$(hostmasterfiles)/etc" directory to my /etc/ directory and change >>> all of >>> the "files" permissions to 600, now screws up the /etc directory >>> permissions. It changes them to 700. Even though, in the cfengine >>> manual >>> it specifically says: >>> A value of r=inf implies unlimited recursion. Cfengine then descends >>> into all subdirectories checking or setting the permissions of files >>> until it `bottoms out' at a plain file. >>> Key words here are "descends into all subdirectories...." not parent >>> directory which it is somehow doing now. >>> >>> :( >>> >>> Please fix as soon as possible... >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bug-cfengine mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine >> >> -- >> Mark Burgess >> >> Professor of Network and System Administration >> Oslo University College >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Work: +47 22453272 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Fax : +47 22453205 WWW : http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> -- Mark Burgess Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Work: +47 22453272 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax : +47 22453205 WWW : http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Bug-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
