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
