On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Dan Bode <d...@reductivelabs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Schulman
> <google-groups-and...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The Type Reference lists 8 read-only type attributes, but I can't find any
>> information in the documentation about how to use them. Are they usable,
>> and if so how?
>>
>> Here's my #1 example: when I set the mode on a file resource, I want to
>> set a different default mode for a file than for a directory. Files have
>> an attribute named type, which the docs say is "a read-only state to check
>> the file type". That would seem to be the right thing, so I want to write
>> something like
>>
>
>
> that doesnt exactly work as you described it. As a feature, if you set up
> default mode as 644, puppet assumes that you want 755 on dirs and not 644.
Really? That just seems like a horrible feature.
>
>>
>> file { mode => $type ? { file => 0644, directory => 0755 } }
>>
>> But that isn't right of course, since $type is a facter fact, unrelated to
>> the file's type attribute. So is the type attribute available for me to
>> use, and if so how?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew.
>>
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