editfiles messing up file permissions?

[Hanus Adler]

Hi

it seems that cfengine (version 1.6.1 on Linux) doesn't preserve file
permissions when the file is edited with editfiles. I don't think this
behaviour is correct, at least I didn't expect it to happen. I found
nothing about it in the documentation.

I would suggest that instead of removing the original file cfengine
might just overwrite the file with new contents, that way the
owner/permissions would remain untouched.

BTW I also tried to use the following setup with Umask "022" but it says
"cfengine:dwarf: Unknown action in editing of file /etc/hosts". Am I
missing something?

editfiles:

        any::
                { /etc/hosts
                        DefineClasses "RepairPermissions"
                        Umask "022"

                        SetLine "127.0.0.1      localhost       
localhost.localdomain"
                        AppendIfNoLineMatching "^127\.0\.0\.1.*"
                }


greetings

Hanus Adler

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