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1.20 links

The symbolic links function is one of the greatest plusses in cfengine as a system administration tool. It allows you to do two things: check single links for correctness and consistency (or make them if they do not exist), and check or make links to every file in a designated directory. This latter feature is called multiple linking or linking children. The linkchildren feature is also available from the files action See files. The syntax of a link item is:

     
       from-link ->[!] to-object
      or
       from-link +>[!] to-object
     
                 type=symbolic/absolute/abs/hard/relative/rel
                 copy=pattern
                 recurse=number/inf/0
                 copytype=checksum/ctime
                 include=pattern
                 exclude=pattern
                 ignore=pattern
                 action=silent
                 deadlinks=kill/force
                 define=classlist
                 nofile=kill/force
                 syslog=true/on/false/off
                 inform=true/on/false/off
     

The special variable $(binserver) can be used in links.