On Oct 18, 2009, at 2:15 AM, Adam Ryczkowski wrote: > > Welcome all, > > Resources can depend one from each other, and failure of a required > resource prevent the dependants from being run. > > But how to trap these failures and handle them? Is there any way to > e.g. set a variable $error_happened to "true" if some promise > about the resource couldn't be kept? Maybe even there is a way to > capture the error string? > > Some preventive actions can be automated, and Puppet seems to be a > good place to implement them. And users who program Puppet are > encouraged to keep from external scripts as far as they could.
What are your goals here? There isn't a lot of room for programming these aspects of Puppet from within the language, but you're the first person to ask for this kind of feature, so for all I know, what you're asking for might be straightforward to add. -- A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. --Alfred E. Wiggam --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
