Petal
Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g. pulling system configurations from a change management system) from their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your needs, Petal may be the tool for you.
| Tags | Internet Web Site Management Utilities Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Solaris Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 16 Apr 2004 17:33
Changes: This release sports several improvements to the build system, making it more portable across different operating systems. For example, the plugins should now build under any libtool-supported OS.
- 30 Dec 2003 11:18
Changes: Extended attributes (regular expressions, globs, and literals) have been implemented for the PostgreSQL plugin.
- 16 Dec 2003 12:09
Changes: This release adds support for extended attributes -- regular expressions, shell-style globs (wildcards), and literals -- to provide very fine-grained control over recursive targets.
- 11 Aug 2003 09:35
Changes: This latest release fixes a problem in how plugins (shared libraries) were loaded. The bug could not be exploited as long as Petal was being used according to the best practices outlined in the FAQ. Petal is now available as an RPM for the convenience of those running RPM-based Linux distributions.
- 25 Jul 2003 11:14
Changes: This release supports PostgreSQL databases as data stores, which is achieved through the use of a new plugin-based architecture.
