Are you sure that action=create alone doesn't do what you want? M
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:23 -0600, Frank Smith wrote: > I'm trying to make a files action that will create a file if it > doesn't exist or will fix ownership if it does exist but is wrong. > > action=create can do the first > action=fixplain can do the second > > However, if I use both a create and fixplain action, only the first > one in the config actually does anything, cfengine's file locking > prevents the second one from running. So if the create action is > first, it will create it if not there but will not fix it if it is. > Conversely, if the fixplain is first it will fix ownerships if it is > wrong, but it will never create the file if it isn't there (the fix > action sets a lock even if the file to fix doesn't exist, so a create > won't happen because the non-existant file is locked). > > action=touch will do what I want, except that it changes the timestamp > of the file on every run whether it changes anything or not (which is > what I would expect a touch to do, but not what I want) > > Is there some option I've missed that could achieve both a create and > a fix and do whichever one is needed? > > Thanks, > Frank > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
