On 3/17/2012 7:06 AM, Charles Williams wrote:
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> Hey all,
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> I have been looking all over for a way to do this and have yet to find
> anything.
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> I have a symlink resource that links an nfs share to /var/spool/cron
> (/var/spool/cron ->  /mnt/imports/nvwh2.bluedotmedia.de/var/spool/cron)
> and I need to be able to check if /var/spool/cron exists and if so if
> it's a symlink prior to starting the resource. If it's an actual
> directory I will need to delete it, start the resource and restart cron.
> If not then cron will not be able to access the spool directory because
> the inode has changed.
>
> I have been looking at the dummy resource to maybe be able to do this
> but am not sure if it will work.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how this could be accomplished?

drbdlinks will rename /var/spool/cron to /var/spool/cron.drbdlink and 
create the symlink on "start" and revert it on "stop". /var/spool/cron 
has to exist (and I think be a directory, not a symlink) and you'll need 
something else to restart cron.

Dima
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