Hi Felix,
Thanks for this - I am liking it.
define remotefile($path, $module, $owner = root, $group = root, $mode
= 0644, $ensure = present) {
file { $name:
ensure => $ensure,
mode => $mode,
owner => $owner,
group => $group,
source => "puppet:///modules/$module/$path",
}
}
I tweaked it a bit:
define remotefile( $owner = root, $group = root, $mode = 0644, $ensure =
present) {
file { $name:
ensure => $ensure,
mode => $mode,
owner => $owner,
group => $group,
source => "puppet:///files/$name",
}
}
and
class syslog {
remotefile { "/tmp/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf": }
}
which is what I call concise (/tmp intentional).
This compells me to elaborate a bit more. The problem with the above is
that you cannot have a remotefile that doesn't care about the mode
(i.e., let puppet accept whatever mode it finds on the client machine).
If you just speicfy
remotefile { "/etc/motd": module => "all" }
the mode will be forced to 0644, which may not be what you want in edge
cases.
This is the pattern we use for this problem:
define remotefile($mode = "") {
Sorry - I don;t understand this - is this pure ruby or puppet language?
VVVV
if $mode != "" { File { mode => $mode } }
If it were ruby, I might have expected File:Stat or whatever - but I
can't find any docs on the puppet site describing "File".
any chance of a quick explanation please?
I sort of see what the intent is - but not how it actually works.
file { $name:
source => "puppet:///.../$name"
}
}
Actually, our remotefile has similar support for about *all* parameters
that "file" supports, except that owner and group indeed default to root
(you would not want to not set those explicitly).
Also note that the "path" parameter is optional in our implementation.
Normally the URL uses $name, so if you need to override that behaviour,
you can fall back to specifying the path. This is handled by if-else
logic in the define.
Cheers,
Felix
Many thanks,
Tim
BTW
I am looking next to try a "define something" to do nodes.pp so I can
declare "A inherits B" and have it set up some magic that the remotefile
function can use inherently. Back with more on this if I get something
working or get stuck...
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Tim Watts
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