Re: Recursion Problem??

[Mark Burgess]

You could use a filter to do this,

M


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:20:19PM -0500, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
> 
> Yes, thanks.  That ignore worked.  It would be nice though if cfengine had
> an option to treat files and directory names differently, such as an omit
> directory option.  I would much rather be able to create random sub
> directories and not have them copied without specifying them explicitly.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> ~adam
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ed Brown wrote:
> 
> > With a directory for a source/dest, and 'r=1', cfengine will create any
> > subdirectories in that top-level directory, but does not recurse into
> > them (they will be empty).  If you don't want the subdirectory created,
> > try 'ignore=modules' (or whatever the subdirectory is that you don't
> > want created.)
> > 
> > -Ed 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:56, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
> > > Anyone,
> > >                                                                           
> > >       
> > > I'm running into a problem with the recursion option in a copy command.
> > > For example, using the default model of copying the updated configs from:
> > >                                                                           
> > >       
> > > server:/var/cfengine/masterfiles --> client:/var/cfengine/inputs
> > >                                                                           
> > >       
> > > just as an example, and setting a recursion to r=0, nothing copies.
> > > However, if I keep it at r=1, or r=inf, then everything copies, but I
> > > don't want that.  Basically I just want to copy only single files from a
> > > source directory to the client and ignore any subdirectories, but it's not
> > > letting me.
> > >                                                                           
> > >       
> > > Is this common behavior, or am I doing something wrong?
> > >                                                                           
> > >       
> > >                                                                           
> > >       
> > > Thanks,
> > > Adam
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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