On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 19:52 +0200, Knut Auvor Grythe wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:30:02PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > > Currently, I'm wanting to make sure a file in all the home directories > > is a specific permission. The problem is, the file may not exist so > > cfengine should just ignore it. When that happens I always get output of > > it simliar to this: > > > > cfengine:host: Directory /home/foouser/.foo cannot be accessed in files > > > > Is there a missing option I can use to make this work or is this just > > the nature of cfengine? > > Couldn't you just do it recursively? Something like this: > > files: > any:: > /home/*/.foo > recurse=1 action=fixall > m=644 > > Not sure if recurse should be 1 or 2 (I don't know where it starts > counting). Haven't tested, and it depends on your directory structure > for directories anyway. I just googled it and found the example in > http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/gnudocs/gnudocs/cfengine/cfengine_35.html > > If the recursion isn't what you want, maybe you could do a test in > groups and use it afterwards? Like this: > > groups: > any:: > foo_exists = ( FileExists(/home/foouser/.foo) ) > > files: > foo_exists:: > /home/foouser/.foo > m=644 > > That way, the rule in files would only be run on existing files. > > Hope this helps. I'm not quite sure what you are doing, so this advice > might not fit your situation :-)
Actually, I found an even better way to resolve this:
files:
/home mode=0640 owner=root group=foo include=.foo action=fixall
I tested it and didn't get a bunch of emails complaining about not
finding that file.
Cheers,
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Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager
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