On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:27 PM, DRivard <dominick.riv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the purpose of running such function if they are not running
> on the client?
>
* Parsing/munging data in the manifests
* Collecting data from an external source to use in manifests
* Running a command on the master
It sounds like you want a custom fact instead of a function.
>
> On Feb 22, 3:22 pm, Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > 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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