OK, I'm officially going crazy! I cut and paste the code I put in my first
post - everything works perfectly now...
I have done some pretty major code re-organisation so it's likely I may
have fixed something along the way which caused spurious problems. I can't
reproduce it any more :(
Thanks for your help though!
On Friday, 1 June 2012 15:09:15 UTC+1, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Jun 1, 5:34 am, Rufus McDufus <r...@bamalam.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks - I'm trying what should be a simple task but I'm having a case
> of
> > brain fade! In puppet enterprise in the pe_compliance module, a cronjob
> > gets added by class pe_compliance::agent:
> >
> > % cat /opt/puppet/share/puppet/modules/pe_compliance/manifests/agent.pp
> > class pe_compliance::agent {
> > cron { 'report_baseline':
> > command =>
> > 'PATH=/opt/puppet/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> > /opt/puppet/bin/puppet inspect',
> > hour => '20',
> > minute => '0',
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > I want to modify this cronjob to redirect stdout to /dev/null but I
> don't
> > want to edit this file directly as I don't want to modify core modules.
> > Everything I try to try and override results in a duplicate definition
> of
> > Pe_compliance::agent or 'Only subclasses can override parameters'. For
> > instance if I try:
> >
> > class pe_compliance::agent::cronmodify inherits ::pe_compliance::agent
> {
> > Cron['report_baseline'] {
> > command =>
> > 'PATH=/opt/puppet/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> > /opt/puppet/bin/puppet inspect >/dev/null'
> > }
> > }
> > include pe_compliance::agent::cronmodify
> >
> > I get:
> > Error 400 on SERVER: Duplicate declaration: Class[Pe_compliance::Agent]
> is
> > already declared; cannot redeclare at
> > /opt/puppet/share/puppet/modules/pe_compliance/manifests/init.pp:15
> >
> > Is there an easy way of overriding this parameter?
>
>
> What you wrote above looks like it ought to work. Perhaps Puppet is
> handling the "::pe_compliance::agent" inconsistently. Does it work if
> instead you write
>
> class pe_compliance::agent::cronmodify inherits pe_compliance::agent {
> [...]
>
> ?
>
> If it does, then I'm sure Puppetlabs would appreciate an official bug
> report. Given that Puppet accepts "inherits ::pe_compliance::agent"
> in the first place, it should recognize that it refers to the same
> class as "pe_compliance::agent", and therefore engage its machinery
> that allows super- and subclasses to both be declared on the same
> node.
>
>
> John
>
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