dest= with spaces in it

[Jonathan H. Landis]

Hello,
I must say that I've found cfengine works wonderfully for the most part. 

I can't seem to be able to use 'copy:' the way I want to.

I'm trying to use a dest=$(value) where value is a directory name that contains
space characters.  

I appears to me that cfengine is expanding the variable and treating it like
the identifier's boundary.

Here's an example:  I want to copy files from '/u0/jlandis/tmp/dir' to 
'/u0/jlandis/tmp/foo bar/'. 

control:
    
    actionsequence = ( copy )
    prefix = ( "/u0/jlandis" )

copy:

    $(prefix)/tmp/dir/ dest=$(prefix)/tmp/foo$(spc)bar/ recurse=2


resulting output:

GNU Configuration Engine - 
cfengine-1.5.3
Free Software Foundation 1995, 1996, 1997
Donated by Mark Burgess, Centre of Science and Technology
Faculty of Engineering, Oslo College, 0254 Oslo, Norway

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Host name is: burrito.kendall.akamai.com
Operating System Type is linux
Operating System Release is 2.2.18pre21
Architecture = i686


Using internal soft-class linux for host burrito.kendall.akamai.com

The time is now Mon Feb 12 16:48:50 2001


------------------------------------------------------------------------

Additional hard class defined as: 32_bit
Additional hard class defined as: linux_2.2.18pre21
Additional hard class defined as: linux_i686
Additional hard class defined as: linux_i686_2.2.18pre21
Additional hard class defined as: 
linux_i686_2_2_18pre21__1_Mon_Dec_11_17_33_49_EST_2000

GNU autoconf class from compile time: linux-gnu

  Careful with this - it might not be correct at run time if you have
  several OS versions with binary compatibilty!

Address given by nameserver: 172.24.25.221
burrito.kendall.akamai.com: No preconfiguration file
Secure copying is not possible without libcrypto from OpenSSL
Accepted domain name: kendall.akamai.com


Defined Classes = ( any debian linux burrito_kendall_akamai_com 
kendall_akamai_com burrito Monday Hr16 Min48 Min45_50 Day12 February Yr2001 
32_bit linux_2_2_18pre21 linux_i686 linux_i686_2_2_18pre21 
linux_i686_2_2_18pre21__1_Mon_Dec_11_17_33_49_EST_2000 linux_gnu 172_24_25 
172_24_25_221 )

Negated Classes = ( )

Installable classes = ( )

Global expiry time for locks: 120 minutes

Global anti-spam elapse time: 0 minutes

Extensions which should not be directories = ( )
Suspicious filenames to be warned about = ( )
cfengine -n: Running in ``All talk and no action'' mode

(Not root user...)

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Checking file images:
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Checking copy from localhost:/u0/jlandis/tmp/dir/ to /u0/jlandis/tmp/foo
cfengine:burrito: /u0/jlandis/tmp/foo/dir_file wasn't at destination
cfengine:burrito: Copying from localhost:/u0/jlandis/tmp/dir/dir_file
cfengine:burrito: copy from /u0/jlandis/tmp/dir/dir_file to 
/u0/jlandis/tmp/foo/dir_file

As you may notice it is using '/u0/jlandis/tmp/foo/' instead of 
'/u0/jlandis/tmp/foo bar/'

I'm using a debian linux (potato) system.  I've tried this with the debian
package of cfengine and a version compiled from source (version 1.6.2) and
they both had the same problem.  Is there a way to have a dest that contains
spaces?

Thanks for your assistance,

Jon

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Jonathan Landis
Akamai Technologies
Service Delivery Engineer, (617) 250-4649
address@hidden