[osiris] What are your recommendations on recursive symlinks?

Justis Peters josiris at vitrumenterprises.com
Mon Oct 30 19:05:18 EST 2006


We are attempting to make our own default.linux file that starts out
very inclusive and excludes anything that gets too noisy.  The
difficulty I am encountering is in symlinks that refer back to a
location higher in its own tree (e.g. a symlink to ../).  Whenever it
encounters one of these, osiris devolves into an infinite loop and I
never receive any notifications about this until the next scheduled scan
fails (because one is already running).

Does anyone have recommendations on a best practice to address this? 
Ideally, I'd like some way to just not follow symlinks when they are
recursive.  I have tried other tactics, though, like an explicit NoEntry
or Exclude filter for the symlink in question.  Even then, though, it
gets into its endless loop.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Kind regards,
Justis Peters
Total Home Integration
www.totalhomeintegration.com



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