Hi Stephan, You're resonse got me thinking. I was using this on Amazon EC2:
@@host { $fqdn: ip => $ipaddress, host_aliases => ["${hostname_alias}", "${domain_name}", "${hostname}"], ensure => present, target => "/etc/hosts", tag => 'ssh-gateway', } I'm using my own variables $hostname_alias and domain_name to get hostnames that humans can read (instead of the Amazon supplied random hostnames). So I should have used: @@host { $hostname_alias: ip => $ipaddress, host_aliases => ["${hostname_alias}", "${domain_name}", "${hostname}"], ensure => present, target => "/etc/hosts", tag => 'ssh-gateway', } This way it works fine. Greetings! On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Stefan Schulte <stefan.schu...@taunusstein.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 01:03:24PM -0800, bowlby wrote: >> Sorry for reviving this old post but I'm having trouble with the above >> setup. >> >> Everytime one of my slaves changes it's IP the hostfile on the ssh- >> gateway gets updated. So for, so good. But the update just adds an >> entry to the hosts-file, thereby leaving the old entry intact. So I >> end up with: >> >> 10.72.1.21 server1 >> 10.72.1.45 server1 >> 10.72.1.90 server1 >> etc. >> >> Is there an easy solution to this? >> >> Thanks! > > Since the fqdn is the key this should NOT happen. Puppet should detect > the change of the ip. Can you please post the complete resource > definition? > > -Stefan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.