On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> Hi, Patrick:
>
> On Wednesday 28 April 2010 23:42:38 Patrick wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
>>> Hi, list:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to add a Debian-based Xen Dom0 server to puppet management.
>
> [...]
>
>> I won't call this way elegant, but there is an easy way to do it.
>>
>>
>> file {
>> "/boot/grub/server_menu.lst":
>> mode => "0644",
>> owner => root,
>> group => root,
>> notify => Exec["updated_menu.lst"],
>> source => "puppet:///s_virtualcluster/menu.lst";
>> }
>>
>> exec { "cp -p /boot/grub/server_menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst":
>> path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin",
>> alias => "updated_menu.lst",
>> refreshonly => true,
>> notify => Exec["update-grub"],
>> }
>>
>> exec { "update-grub":
>> path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin",
>> refreshonly => true,
>> }
>
> First of all, thanks for your help. I think your idea covers the first part
> of the equation but unless I misunderstood, it won't cope with the second
> part.
>
> From what I see, yours will cope with the case where I update menu.lst
> server-side, but what if somebody changes the client's copy
> of /boot/grub/menu.lst? It seems puppet won't notice it so won't recover
> the "proper" contents (as per the puppetmaster idea of it). Am I right?
>
> Cheers and thank you for your interest.
You're right. It won't do that. Try removing refreshonly on the second
command, and replacing it with an "unless" or "onlyif" that uses /usr/bin/diff.
-Patrick
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