Thanks to everyone for all of your input. It was very helpful. I like Felix's suggestion about writing a plugin.
rjl On Dec 20, 5:03 am, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/19/2010 10:16 PM, rjl wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > How can I put in an update time in a template file? The problem I am > > running it to is this... > > > Here is my file to update the timestamp > > > snmp.conf.erb > > > # HEADER: [ <%= Time.now.gmtime %> ] Modified by puppet. > > defVersion 2c > > devCommunity somecommunity > > > The problem is that everytime puppet runs, it updates the time stamp. > > I only want it to update if there was an actual change to the content > > of the file > > > Thanks in advace. > > > rjl > > Hi, > > a template probably won't do this for you. Whenever puppet generates > your client's catalog, the template text is put into that. So if the > master generates the header, it will produce a different catalog each time. > > The most simple thing would be for you to rely on the mtime instead. > This has some drawbacks, of course. > > If the template is simple enough (and, unlike me, you know some ruby), > it may be feasible to write a simple plugin instead. That way, you *can* > limit header generation to times when there are actual changes. > > HTH, > Felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
