Hello all, I have done my best to RTFM, and this seems to be exactly the problem I have:
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#i-want-to-manage-a-directory-and-purge-its-contents I am attempting to manage a lighttpd module, so I'd like to manage what's in the the various conf-* directories. Thus, file { ["$conf_dir/ssl", "$conf_dir/conf-include", "$conf_dir/conf- enabled", "$conf_dir/conf-available"]: ensure => directory, purge => true, recurse => true, force => true, source => "puppet:///lighttpd/empty", } Sadly, I get a string of errors: err: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/ssl]: Failed to generate additional resources during transaction: None of the provided sources exist debug: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/ssl]/checksum: Initializing checksum hash debug: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/ssl]: Creating checksum {mtime} Fri Jun 19 01:39:34 -0700 2009 err: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/ssl]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: No specified source was found from puppet:///lighttpd/empty err: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled]: Failed to generate additional resources during transaction: None of the provided sources exist debug: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled]/checksum: Initializing checksum hash debug: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled]: Creating checksum {mtime}Fri Jun 19 13:58:35 -0700 2009 err: //lighttpd/File[/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: No specified source was found from puppet:///lighttpd/empty And so forth. And, these aren't 'ignorable' errors -- it doesn't actually clean the directory. This is pretty essential to have working, as otherwise you get what led me to try and track this down in the first place, which is a change to the puppet manifest leading to 2 different lighttpd configs trying to have the same Document Root directory. (When, in fact, one of them should have no longer existed.) I have the identical problem managing an /etc/monit.d/* directory's contents -- switching from, say, apache to lighttpd means monit will still have the /etc/monit.d/apache file in there and they'll be fighting over port 80. (Sadface.) The last message referring to this as a valid workaround seems to have been about 2 months ago, so it "should" still work? puppet: 0.24.8 facter: 1.5.1 ruby: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---