On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:57 AM, David Schmitt <da...@dasz.at> wrote: > > Tim Galyean wrote: > > The company I work for is getting ready to deploy a large puppet > > configuration into an existing environment. The majority of the > > servers that this will be deployed on are web servers, however some of > > them are configured different from the rest. > > > > We have a set of default config files for apache, mysql and so forth, > > however my quesiton is: > > > > Is there a way to "tell" puppet to do a sort of comparison on the > > files, so that if one does not match the default config it is ignored > > and or not replaced with the default. > > > > Any help with this is greatly appreciated, Thanks ahead of time. > > > Set the "replace" parameter on the file to false. This will keep puppet > from overwriting local changes. > > If you want to see what is different from what it should be, use --noop > when running puppetd instead. > > > Regards, DavidS
Bear in mind that "replace" only looks at whether the file exists, not the actual contents. What is the OP actually trying to accomplish? From the original email, it sounds like he's trying to replace a file if and only if it is identical to the new one. The easiest solution to that: don't define the file in Puppet. That way, all of them will remain exactly as they are... -SH --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
