Bug 798064

Summary:	Drift detection follows symbolic links (possibly unexpectedly) ... consider documentation
Product:	[Other] RHQ Project	Reporter:	Mike Foley <mfoley>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Deon Ballard <dlackey>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Mike Foley <mfoley>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0.1	CC:	hrupp
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Description Mike Foley 2012-02-27 23:59:23 UTC

Description of problem:  Drift detection follows symbolic links (possibly unexpectedly) ... consider documentation


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  JON 3.01


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  create a symbolic link, e.g.   ln -s  /my/other/directory  mylink
2.  create a drift definition with a base directory that contains the symbolic link
3.  wait for drift detection, or click the detect now button
  
Actual results:  drift follows the symbolic link ... and snapshot #0 contains the files in /my/other/directory.  


Expected results:   to be crystal clear...the actual behavior is the expected behavior ... after you think about it.  but ...initially, it wasn't.  i happened to have a lot of files in /my/other/directory ...and i was wondering why drift detection took so long.   if you have a lot of files in /my/other/directory you may not be aware that snapshot #0 will contain all the files in that directory.  therefore, i think this is possible documentation opportunity.


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Comment 1 Deon Ballard 2012-03-06 20:02:55 UTC

Link:
http://documentation-stage.bne.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Operations_Network/3.0/html/Managing_Resource_Configuration/drift-config.html#dest-special-files

Comment 2 Deon Ballard 2012-06-21 23:14:13 UTC

Closing.