Yep. I've tried both. I've also tried using just strait files (not directories) with the include, and it still deletes those too.
~a On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Mark Burgess wrote: > Without being in a position to check this right now, have you tried > "ignore" for your directories? Inlcude normally skips directories > while ignore does not. > > M > > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:14 -0600, Adam M. Dunn wrote: > > Help. > > > > According to the cfengine documentation, if you have purge enabled, then > > any include= will not get purged. I'm trying to use this feature but I > > can't seem to make it work. I want to copy whole directory trees, purge > > the destination, but also leave a /local directory on the destination so I > > can have local files in it that won't be purged. Here is what I have in > > my copy. > > > > copy: > > > > GSCBinaries.CVS:: > > /var/cfengine/distrib/${binplatform}/gsc > > dest=/usr/gsc > > r=inf > > owner=root > > group=other > > type=binary > > include=local > > exclude=*.cfsaved > > exclude=*~ > > exclude=#* > > define=runconfig > > server=$(buildserver) > > trustkey=true > > ifelapsed=0 > > purge=true > > > > > > Any ideas? I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out, and it > > seems so simple it shouldn't be an issue (or am I just that stupid?). > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Adam > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-cfengine mailing list > > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine