Hi guys, I was enlightened by the 'puppet+augeas modprobe.conf' post (thanks!) and was going to put inittab under puppet/augeas management.
My goal is to add this one line for spawning a console on the serial port if it doesn't exist: co:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 19200 vt100 However the task proved to be more tricky than I first imaged. There were two thing I was stuck on. Firstly inittab tree in augeas starts with number instead of arrays, and I had to work around to append with ins and last(). Secondly the match in onlyif didn't seem to like spaces, so I was unsure how I can match the sequence exactly. I came up with the following: augeas { "inittab": context => "/files/etc/inittab", changes => [ "set 100/id 'co'", "set 100/runlevels 12345", "set 100/action respawn", "set 100/process \"/sbin/agetty ttyS0 19200 vt100\"", ], onlyif => "match */id[.='co'] size == 0'", #onlyif => "match */process[.='/sbin/agetty ttyS0 19200 vt100'] size == 0", } So for my first problem, I used an arbitary large number (100) so it's outside the existing line ranges - not robust and could inadvertently overwrite something else. But for the matching, the first onlyif works but the commented out one would error with err: //Augeas[inittab]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Error sending command 'match' with params ["vt100']", "size", "==", "0"]/unknown error - Matching path expression '/files/etc/inittab/*/ process[.='/sbin/agetty' failed I would really want to match on the serial console port (ttyS0) in case it's named under a different id on an existing host. Did a search and found a previous issue at http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1835 that looked similar, but the set I've used which contains spaces worked beautifully so this should be something else. Any ideas how I can achieve the append? Thanks very much. Hui --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---