No need to apologize, all of the effort you have put into cfengine has made thousands of administrators jobs much easier... Actually, I should apologize for calling it a "bug", whereas it's just a feature change. One little hiccup in the 3 years that I have been using this software is not the end of the world. I do appreciate your reply. Is the "checkroot=false" option available in 2.2.2? I keep getting: Illegal copy attribute If it's not, I'll have to stick with 2.2.1 for now.
Again, thanks for the reply! On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Mark Burgess wrote: > > Since this has tripped several people up, I am setting the default > behaviour back to checkroot=false in svn for 2.2.3. It is very > unfortunate that this has had unexpected consequences, and I apologize > for the inconvenience generated. > > M > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Unfortunately I recently upgraded to 2.2.2 (from 2.2.1) which literally >> trashed about 10 of our system before I figured out what happened! >> Apparently something is broken in 2.2.2 that causes problems with the copy >> commands like this: >> >> copy: >> myserver:: >> $(hostmasterfiles)/etc dest=/etc/ r=inf >> mode=600 owner=root group=root >> type=checksum >> >> What "used to" simply copy all of my files from my >> "$(hostmasterfiles)/etc" directory to my /etc/ directory and change all of >> the "files" permissions to 600, now screws up the /etc directory >> permissions. It changes them to 700. Even though, in the cfengine manual >> it specifically says: >> A value of r=inf implies unlimited recursion. Cfengine then descends >> into all subdirectories checking or setting the permissions of files >> until it `bottoms out' at a plain file. >> Key words here are "descends into all subdirectories...." not parent >> directory which it is somehow doing now. >> >> :( >> >> Please fix as soon as possible... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bug-cfengine mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine > > -- > Mark Burgess > > Professor of Network and System Administration > Oslo University College > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Work: +47 22453272 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fax : +47 22453205 WWW : http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ Bug-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
