Re: cfengine: ignore don't work as expected

[Mark . Burgess]

This seems to have been deliberate at some point, since the list is
explicitly ignored. I can't see any reason for this now - so it will
be patched in the next release.

M


On 15 Aug, Uwe Zeisberger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using cfengine 2.0.7p3 and wrote the following in a file called cf.conf:
> 
> ---------------------------------->8-----------------------------------
> control:
>     actionsequence  = ( tidy )
>     domain          = ( informatik.uni-freiburg.de )
>     Inform          = ( on )
> 
> 
> filters:
>     { tmpfiles
>         Owner: "root"
>         FromAtime: "date(1970,1,1,0,0,0)"
>         ToAtime: "tminus(0,0,21,0,0,0)"
>         Result: "!Owner.Atime"
>     }
> 
> tidy:
>   opt_dry_run::
>     /tmp
>         pattern=*
>         age=21
>         recurse=inf
>         rmdirs=sub
>         filter=tmpfiles
>         ignore=uscreens
> --------------------------------->8-----------------------------------
> 
> and:
> 
> arcturus@~ # cfagent -f ./cf.conf -n | grep uscreen
> cfengine:arcturus: want to delete /tmp/uscreens/S-user3/15223.pts-32.arcturus
> 
> I also tried ignore=/tmp/uscreens und ignore=/tmp/uscreens/ but cfengine
> still want to delete this file.
> 
> If i insert:
> 
> ignore:
>     uscreens
> 
> the file won't get deleted. But how can I achieve this with a local
> ignore?
> 
> The corresponding output using `cfagent -d 2' is:
> 
> --------------------------------->8-----------------------------------
> ...
> Filter result on /tmp/rippa was 0
> Skipping filtered file /tmp/rippa
> IgnoreFile(uscreens)
> NotMountedFileSystem
> RecursiveTidySpecialArea(/tmp/uscreens)
> Changed directory to /tmp/uscreens
> Checking the inode and device to make sure we are where we think we are...
> IgnoredOrExcluded(/tmp/uscreens)
> IgnoreFile()
> Tidy: opening dir /tmp/uscreens
> Filename /tmp/uscreens/. is classified as ignorable
> Filename /tmp/uscreens/.. is classified as ignorable
> IgnoreFile(S-user2)
> NotMountedFileSystem
> RecursiveTidySpecialArea(/tmp/uscreens/S-user2)
> Changed directory to /tmp/uscreens/S-user2
> Checking the inode and device to make sure we are where we think we are...
> IgnoredOrExcluded(/tmp/uscreens/S-user2)
> IgnoreFile()
> Tidy: opening dir /tmp/uscreens/S-user2
> Filename /tmp/uscreens/S-user2/. is classified as ignorable
> Filename /tmp/uscreens/S-user2/.. is classified as ignorable
> IgnoreFile(5507.pts-54.arcturus)
> ...
> --------------------------------->8-----------------------------------
> 
> Shortly looking over the source, I found strange, that there is an empty
> string between the parenthesis of Ignorefile, as I think there should
> occur the same argument as in IgnoredOrExcluded.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Uwe
> 



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