On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:29 AM, PL wrote:
>
> This is the situation:
> We have a bunch of config files. We check if mtime changed.
> The line written in syslog is trapped by a monitoring tool and someone
> is warned.
> This works fine...
>
> What we want is
> 1. to backup the file when mtime has changed (and keep x versions)
> 2. execute a diff between new file and last backup and send it by
> mail to so.
>
> I don't see any way to do 1.
> If I try in the file type ... backup => puppet ... it doesn't work.
> The doc says it will be backed up before a change ( for ex with
> source => ... ) but I don't want to change it.
>
> I can do sth like:
> file { "test.txt": ... checksum => mtime }
> exec{ "myscript": ... subscribe => File["test.txt"], refreshonly =>
> true }
>
> with script "myscript" doing a backup, a diff and send the mail, but I
> don't want to reinvent everything.
> How can I use a filebucket ?
>
> NB: these config changes are made by a automatic deploiement system,
> so we cannot manage it in Puppet. But we want to be warn when a change
> occurs to avoid "accidental" manual changes...
I think I actually opened a feature request for this, since I think
it's a good idea, but it's not high on my priority list so I don't
think I'll get to it any time soon.
I doubt we could easily add the ability to email diffs or anything,
but you would get whatever was in the report, anyway, and you should
be able to do your own diffs if you use a central filebucket.
I've also got some interesting ideas for a git-backed filebucket[1]
which would make this much easier, but they also require quite a bit
more effort and there are too many other things lined up in front of
them.
1 - http://gist.github.com/77811
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