cdist-type__link(7)

Overview

This cdist type allows you to manage hard and symbolic links. The given object id is the destination for the link.

Required parameters

`source`	Specifies the link source.
`type`	Specifies the link type: Either hard or symbolic.

Optional parameters

state: 'present' or 'absent', defaults to 'present'

Messages

created <destination>: Link to destination was created.

removed <destination>: Link to destination was removed.

removed <destination> (directory): Destination was removed because state is present and destination was directory.

removed <destination> (wrongsource): Destination was removed because state is present and destination link source was wrong.

Examples

# Create hard link of /etc/shadow
__link /root/shadow --source /etc/shadow --type hard
# Relative symbolic link
__link /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.test.ch   \
   --source ../sites-available/www.test.ch      \
   --type symbolic
# Absolute symbolic link
__link /opt/plone --source /home/services/plone --type symbolic
# Remove link
__link /opt/plone --state absent

Copying

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

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