2009/9/16 Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com>:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bostjan Skufca <bostjan.sku...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Does anybody know, if resources can be inherited?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> I would like to define three files with owner=root and group=bin and
>> mode=754.
>> To do that you can write:
>> file { "file1":
>> owner=root,
>> group=bin,
>> mode=754,
>> }
>> file { "file2":
>> owner=root,
>> group=bin,
>> mode=754,
>> }
>> file { "file3":
>> owner=root,
>> group=bin,
>> mode=754,
>> }
>>
>>
>> As you can see there is a bit of redundancy there.
>
> You should do this with setting resource defaults in the current scope
> instead like:
>
> File { ensure => file, owner => root, group => bin, mode => 0754, }
>
> file { ["file1", "file2", "file3"]: }
>
Or:
file { ["file1", "file2", "file3"]:
owner=root,
group=bin,
mode=754,
}
Or using a define or articulated as:
file {
"file1":
owner => "root",
group => "bin",
mode => 754;
"file2":
owner => "root",
group => "bin",
mode => 754;
"file3":
owner => "root",
group => "bin",
mode => 754;
}
Regards
James Turnbull
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