On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 13:09, Christopher Wood
<christopher_w...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I definitely need some assistance in conceptualizing something.
>
> If I want to configure syslog-ng instead of rsyslog, or configure rsyslog
> instead of sysklogd, the previous syslog daemon has to be stopped (and
> disabled) before the new one starts. De-configuring the previous one works
> just fine when the service (init script) exists on the system:
>
> $disable = ['rsyslog', 'syslog']
> service { $disable:
> enable => false,
> ensure => stopped,
> }
>
> But when the init script doesn't exist, I get something like this:
>
> Jan 17 15:05:44 dpuppet-01 puppet-agent[4011]:
> (/Stage[main]/Sysklogd::Disable/Service[syslog]/ensure) change from running
> to stopped failed: Could not find init script for 'syslog'
>
> How would I say "if it's there, disable it, if not, ignore it" in puppet DSL?
exec { "damn!": … }
Sadly, there isn't any way to express this in the DSL. I suspect
there might be a feature request already, but I can't find one, so can
you file one? This seems like a useful thing to do, without thinking
too deeply about it.
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