Please help! -- 2.1.11 cfengine delete /tmp symbolic link misteriously

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Hi,

  Yesterday I've updated my cfengine from 2.1.7p1 to
2.1.11. The new packages compiled and installed
successfully. But unfortunately, it mis-interpret my
configuration files which worked for 2.1.7p1 with no
faults. And deleted my /tmp symbolic link by mistake.

  The background information is:

     1),        I have two links /tmp -> ../0/.final/tmp, 
/var/tmp -> ../0/.final/tmp, while /0/.final/tmp is a
directory.

      2),   /var, /, and /0 are three dfferent
partitions.

      3),   my "tidy" related sections for the
/var/tmp/ is:

¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..
control:

   actionsequence = ( directories files links tidy
disable copy editfiles processes shellcommands 
¡­¡­¡­..)

tidy:
    any::

        /var/tmp/
            pattern=*
            filter=tmpSpaceTidy
            recurse=inf
            type=mtime
            rmdirs=true
            links=tidy
            dirlinks=tidy
            age=39
            inform=true

¡­¡­¡­.
filters:

   { tmpSpaceTidy
          Type: "reg|dir|link|socket"
          Result: "Type"
   }
¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..

 After I run "cfagent  -v -q", then I got the
following line (15 bytes is the total bytes of
symbolic link destination "../0/.final/tmp":

*********************************************************************
 Main Tree Sched: tidy pass 1 @ Thu Nov 11 18:18:53
2004
*********************************************************************
¡­¡­¡­..
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Tidying by directory
---------------------------------------------------------------------

cfengine:alws10: Deleting file /var/tmp
cfengine:alws10: Size=15 bytes,
                
                ¡­¡­

It is very strange, since not symbolic link "var/tmp"
is deleted, but /tmp llink which points to same
destination!

Then I tried to output the debug desult with "cfagent
-v -d10 -q", and got the following output:

            ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Tidying by directory
---------------------------------------------------------------------


No patterns active in base directory
/var/lib/cfengine2/outputs

Tidying from base directory /var/tmp
ExpandVarstring(/var/tmp)
ExpandVarstring(/tmp)
GetLock(tidy,_var_tmp,time=1100226190),
ExpireAfter=120, IfElapsed=1
GetLastLock()
CheckOldLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
Unable to find lock data
lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298
SetLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
PutLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
Found no lock
[lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298]:
DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
Registering root device as 2059
RecursiveTidySpecialArea(/var/tmp)
Changed directory to /var/tmp
Checking the inode and device to make sure we are
where we think we are...
IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp)
IgnoreFile(/var/tmp,)
Tidy: opening dir /var/tmp
Filename /var/tmp/. is classified as ignorable
Filename /var/tmp/.. is classified as ignorable
IgnoreFile(/var/tmp,cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
WildMatch(*,cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
FileObjectFilter(/var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
Applying filter tmpSpaceTidy
Filter result on /var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm
was 1
IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp/cfengine-2.1.11-1.i386.rpm)
Checking tidy topmost directory /var/tmp
Checking for dead links
KillOldLink(/var/tmp)
WildMatch(*,tmp)
FileObjectFilter(/var/tmp)
Applying filter tmpSpaceTidy
Filter result on /var/tmp was 1
IgnoredOrExcluded(/var/tmp)
Link to directory, dirlinks= says delete these
cfengine:alws10: Deleting file /var/tmp
cfengine:alws10: Size=15 bytes,
ReleaseCurrentLock(lock.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
PutLock(last.cfagent_conf.alws10.tidy.tidy_1298)
LockLog(Lock removed normally )

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I have no otherchoise, but have to temporarily fix the
problem by the following changes:

    rmdir=sub   ## original is "true"
    xdev=false  ## orignally doesn't exist
    
It is only a temporary fix for the above problem.
Please help.
 
 







                
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