[hobbit] files check for symlink

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed May 23 14:33:00 CEST 2007


On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:21:36AM +0100, Mike Rowell wrote:
> Is it possible to use the FILES check to check is a file exists and is a
> symlink, in our architecture we use symlinks for a live/fallow setup on
> some systems switching between the directories during certain tasks,
> what I need to check is that a file inside the current live directory
> exists and is a symlink.

The obvious answer would be a FILE check with "type=symlink", but alas
that hasn't been implemented.

A completely untested patch would be the following. Let me know if it
works.


Regards,
Henrik

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