Re: Need advice for smart copy

[Iain Morgan]

Switch the order of your copies and turn on SingleCopy in your control: section.

On Mon Nov 29 00:08:10 2004, Zeev Fisher wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to copy automounter files to all solaris hosts except 
> specific hosts that will have different specific maps.
> 
> I did the following on the copy section in cf.solaris ( of course i 
> pasted only the relevant lines ) :
> 
> copy:
> 
>         $(masterfiles)/$(site)/solaris/all dest=/etc m=644 o=root g=root 
> type=checksum include=auto_* r=1 define=modified_auto
> 
> SpecificHosts::
> 
>         $(masterfiles)/SpecificHosts/$(host)/auto_archive 
> dest=/etc/auto_archive m=644 o=root g=root type=checksum
> 
> 
> The problem with this is that actually on the specific hosts every time 
> this file is copied twice and the group modified_auto declared.
> Moreover , i notice that sometimes the auto_archive file from the 
> general rule reside in the Specific hosts.
> 
> 
> I know i can place NOT in the general copy section for the auto_* on the 
> specific hosts but then i will have to put all the auto_* files for each 
> specific hosts and not just the files that are different from the other.
> 
> I have 2 questions :
> 
> 1) Isn't the order of the lines in the sections are deterministic that i 
> know what comes after the other ? there wasn't sometimes a problem that 
> the first copy is after the second copy.
> 2) Does anybody has advice how to best solve this configuration ?
> 
> 
> Thanks !
> 

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Iain Morgan