In this case the text appears to be a hardcode in a couple of providers: $ grep -r managed\ manually `pwd` /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/parsedfile.rb:# HEADER: by puppet. While it can still be managed manually, it /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb:# HEADER: While it can still be managed manually, it is definitely not recommended.
But this sounds like a great string for an environment-wide variable (hiera lookup) that all your templates can use. On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:08:39PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > I would also like to know this. I keep hacking the same text into our > templates. If there is a tag we could put in a template to get this output > I'd like to know it. > On Oct 1, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Brian Dunbar wrote: > > New puppet user. I see that the cron class creates a cronjob with a > date-time in the header, which is cool. > # HEADER: This file was autogenerated at Mon Oct 01 11:43:25 -0500 2012 > by puppet. > # HEADER: While it can still be managed manually, it is definitely not > recommended. > 1. How does it do that? > 2. I'd like to be able to edit the text, customize it. > 3. More particularly, how can I put a date/time stamp in other managed > files? > I tried to do so with a template but that was not working out so well. > Regards, > ~brian > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [1]https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Wsckx5euwRgJ. > To post to this group, send email to [2]puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [3]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [4]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet > projects. > > -- > 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. > > References > > Visible links > 1. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Wsckx5euwRgJ > 2. mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com > 3. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 4. 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.
