I'm not the OP Nigel, I think you meant Graham. It sounds like Augeas has some capabilities that I just wasn't aware of. In any case Augeas is not something I use if I can avoid it. Templates and concat are my preferred methods for managing config files. Straightforward > clever for the general case.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I'm not aware of any file editing method in Puppet that will modify >> multiple files as part of the same resource. The usual approach would >> be to create multiple resources, one for each file, and then cause >> each resource to notify the postfix service to restart. > > > Note that you can wrap these multiple resources in a single defined resource > so that it "looks" like a single resource from the point of view of the > person editing the manifest code. > > > > >> >> Puppet's >> smart enough to only restart it once. As far as setting up the files >> the way you want them, if you need to edit the files in place Augeas >> is your only built-in option. You can also do hacky things with exec >> but it's not pleasant. Most folks don't edit in place, they replace >> the file with known good contents. For that you can use templates or >> something like puppet-concat (a third-party module that allows you to >> build files from fragments). >> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote: >> > On 27 Nov 2011, at 20:04, Graham Leggett wrote: >> > >> >> I have a task to convince puppet and augeas to modify multiple postfix >> >> files, most specifically /etc/postfix/main.cf and /etc/postifx/ >> >> acceptdomains.cf (and other LDAP related files), and I'm struggling to >> >> find out how to do that. I have found examples on how to use augeas to >> >> modify just one file at a time, but no information seems to be >> >> available when multiple files are involved. >> >> >> >> I started with the config published here, and have no idea what to >> >> change to convince puppet+augeas to edit both /etc/postfix/main.cf >> >> and /etc/postfix/acceptdomains.cf at the same time: >> >> >> >> >> >> https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-postfix/blob/master/manifests/config.pp >> >> >> >> Does anyone have a sample configuration on how you would modify >> >> multiple files at once, or have a clue on where to start? >> > >> > Answering my own question, I've discovered that augeas doesn't support >> > multiple files at all without a custom lens being created to support it. >> > >> > Or to declare it more accurately, augeas only knows about specific files >> > defined in specific locations, it has no concept of a general file in a >> > general location that you might want to apply a lens to. >> > >> > I eventually worked around the issue by making a custom lens copied from >> > the augeas postfix_main.aug lens that listed the extra ldap templates as >> > matching a wildcard, at this point augeas started working correctly. >> > >> > Something else I discovered is that augeas has no error handling of any >> > kind - if it doesn't recognise a file as matching one of the predetermined >> > locations built into the lens, it will silently ignore the file, and not >> > tell you why. > > > Do you get the same results with the command line 'augtool' Aaron? > > If not, please bug report that we need to fix this in the Puppet Augeas > integration. > > -- > Nigel Kersten > Product Manager, Puppet Labs > > > > -- > 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.
