NAME

       md_src_plugins_path_README - README

       • infos = Information about path plugin is in keys below

       • infos/author = Markus Raab elektra@libelektra.org

       • infos/licence = BSD

       • infos/needs =

       • infos/provides = check

       • infos/placements = presetstorage

       • infos/description = Checks if keys enriched with appropriate metadata contain valid paths as values

       This plugin checks whether the value of a key is a valid filesystem path.

   Purpose
       The  motivation  to write this plugin is given by the two paths that exist in /etc/fstab: the device file
       and the mountpoint. A missing file is not necessarily an error, because the device file may appear  later
       when  a  device is plugged in and the mountpoint may be there when another subsequent mount was executed.
       So only warnings are yielded in that case. One situation, however, presents an error:  Only  an  absolute
       path  is  allowed  to  occur for both device and mount point. When checking for relative files, it is not
       enough to look at the first character if it is a /, because remote file systems and  some  special  names
       are valid, too.

   Usage
       If the meta key check/path is present, it is checked if the value is a valid absolute filesystem path. If
       a metavalue is present, an additional check will be done if it is a directory or device file.

Version 0.8.14                                   Tue Dec 15 2015            md_src_plugins_path_README(3elektra)