That's what I was thinking too but I worry that someone may feel compelled to
tidy things up ;-)
I can see it now...
echo "Delete me and you will die" >
/root/firebird_security_file_deployed_do_not_delete
Craig
On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> I'd be tempted to write another file as well as part of the initial config
> (/var/lib/firebird/configured or something), then check for its
> (non)existence before pushing the file out.
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote:
> This seems to work but it does seem perilous and ugly. A meta description of
> what I am trying to do is:
> - install firebird sql server
> - replace the 'security' file with a known file
> - restart the firebird service
>
> I'm not going to include firebird::install class because the part that
> worries me is that I can't work on /var/lib/firebird/2.1/system/security.fdb
> directly because we will want to maintain it locally after installation. I
> only want a single shot deploy. So I am linking to /root/security.fdb and
> then copying it from there to it's home. I suppose there is a much better way
> to do this but I haven't found it.
>
> My worry is that I never actually overwrite
> /var/lib/firebird/2.1/system/security.fdb after the initial install/configure
> phase is completed.
>
> class firebird::configure {
> file {"/root/security.fdb":
> source => "puppet:///modules/firebird/security.fdb",
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 640,
> replace => false,
> }
> exec { "Copy KNOWN security.fdb into position":
> path => "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin",
> environment => "HOME=/root",
> command => "/bin/cp /root/security.fdb /var/lib/firebird/2.1/system",
> user => "root",
> group => "root",
> logoutput => on_failure,
> require => Class["firebird::install"],
> }
> }
>
> Is there a better way?
>
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