On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Adam Nielsen <a.niel...@shikadi.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the class below to set the timezone on a Debian system, however
> there are two things I'm unhappy with.
>
> 1) Why do I have to specify a trailing colon after the exec command and
> when calling timezone::set? If I leave it off I get the very helpful error
> "Syntax error at '}'; expected '}'"
>
It's the minimum required syntax for declaring a resource. The : is required
to seperate the resource title and the list of attributes:
resource_type {
title :
attribute => value, (trailing comma optional for last attribute, can
omit all default value)
; (trailing semicolon optional for single resource)
}
So removing optional parts:
resource_type { title : }
> 2) Because of the exec command, /etc/timezone gets overwritten without a
> backup being made like with other functions. Is there a way to get the file
> included in the file bucket? I imagine I'd have to add an "onlyif"
> directive to make sure this only happened if the file contents changed.
>
You can use puppet filebucket command to backup the files before the exec,
but in this case why not use the file resource?
file { "/etc/timezone":
content => $name,
}
I'm using this function-call "design" in a few places so if it can be
> rewritten in a nicer way I'd like to know as I can then tidy up a few other
> classes too. This is all I have been able to decipher from the examples
> I've stumbled across.
>
> Many thanks,
> Adam.
>
> -------
>
> class timezone {
>
> define set($ensure = present) {
>
> file {
> "/etc/localtime":
> ensure => symlink,
> target => "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$name",
> ;
> }
>
> exec { "/bin/echo '${name}' > /etc/timezone": }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> -------
>
> include timezone
> timezone::set { "Australia/Brisbane": }
>
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