Yes - always begin with the manual. nofile=kill/force This decides what happens to links which point to non-existent files. The default action is to remove such links, or refuse to create them. By setting the force option you can force cfengine to make symbolic links to files which do not exist. This is useful for setting up links to filesystems which are not permanently mounted.
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:09 -0800, Brian C. Hill wrote: > I posted this last week; no one responded. Is there a better > way to achieve this? > > I want to copy a tree of symbolic links, some of which will not > actually point to anything on some systems. Is there a way to get > cfengine to copy the symbolic link without worrying about whether the > link is 'dangling' or not? > > Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
