HomePattern = ( list of wildcards )
The homepattern variable is used by the cfengine model for
mounting nfs filesystems. @xref{NFS resources,NFS resources,NFS resources,cfengine-Tutorial}. It is also used in the evaluation of the
pseudo variable home, See section files, section tidy.
homepattern is in fact a list and is used like a wildcard or
pattern to determine which filesystems in the list of mountables
are home directories. See section mountables. This relies on your sticking
to a rigid naming convention as described in the first reference above.
For example, you might wish to mount (or locate directly if you are not
using a separate partition for home directories) your home directories
under mountpattern in directories u1, u2 and so on.
In this case you would define homepattern to match these numbers:
homepattern = ( u? )
Cfengine now regards any directory matching
$(mountpattern)/u? as being a user login directory.
Suppose you want to create mount home directories under
$(mountpattern)/home and make subdirectories for staff and
students. Then you would be tempted to write:
HomePattern = ( home/staff home/students )
Unfortunately this is not presently possible. (This is, in principle, a bug which should be fixed in the future.) What you can do instead is to achieve the same this as follows:
MountPattern = ( /$(site)/$(host) /$(site)/$(host)/home ) HomePattern = ( staff students )
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