Hi there,
So, functions will ALWAYS be executed on the Puppet MASTER server. They're
never executed on the client. This is why you're seeing the behavior that
you do.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:00 PM, DRivard <dominick.riv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I needed a function to check if a file is existing on the Debian box I
> am configuring. So I used this one
>
> module Puppet::Parser::Functions
> newfunction(:file_exists, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
> if File.exists?(args[0])
> return 1
> else
> return 0
> end
> end
> end
>
> It work greats for some service where apache2 doesn't work for me.
> I am using it this way "file_exists('/etc/init.d/apache2') == 1" if
> this return true I will stop the service or do nothing.
> In my case, the file /etc/init.d/apache2 exists on the puppet master
> running through Passenger, but the puppet client doesn't have it.
> But when I run the puppetd -vt it returns me an error because it's
> thinking the file /etc/init.d/apache2 exists on the puppet client and
> tries to stop the service.
>
> do you have any idea, is there a caching system on puppet client where
> we could delete a cached function?
>
> Thank you!
>
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