Create files and directories

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The following is a standalone policy that will create the file /home/mark/tmp/test_plain and the directory /home/mark/tmp/test_dir/ and set permissions on both.

body common control

{
      bundlesequence  => { "example"  };
}


bundle agent example

{
  files:

      "/home/mark/tmp/test_plain"

The promiser specifies the path and name of the file.

      perms => system,
      create => "true";

The perms attribute sets the file permissions as defined in the system body below. The create attribute makes sure that the files exists. If it doesn't, CFEngine will create it.

      "/home/mark/tmp/test_dir/." 

      perms => system,
      create => "true";

The trailing /. in the filename tells CFEngine that the promiser is a directory.

}


body perms system

{
      mode  => "0640";
}

This body sets permissions to "0640"

This policy can be found in /var/cfengine/share/doc/examples/create_filedir.cf and downloaded directly from github.

Example output:

# cf-agent -f unit_create_filedir.cf -I
2013-06-08T14:56:26-0700     info: /example/files/'/home/mark/tmp/test_plain': Created file '/home/mark/tmp/test_plain', mode 0640
2013-06-08T14:56:26-0700     info: /example/files/'/home/mark/tmp/test_dir/.': Created directory '/home/mark/tmp/test_dir/.'
2013-06-08T14:56:26-0700     info: /example/files/'/home/mark/tmp/test_dir/.': Object '/home/mark/tmp/test_dir' had permission 0755, changed it to 0750
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