You may as well port the code from the cron provider into your environment.
For the generic string I was thinking of something as simple as "Don't touch this file." On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:46:09PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > I'm not sure it's that easy. The original question about how to include > the date would cause some issues.. If the hiera lookup generated the date > each time, the file would be different each time and be overwritten each > time, which is probably not desirableable especially if a notify or > subscribe caused a service to restart. > On Oct 4, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Christopher Wood wrote: > > 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][1]https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Wsckx5euwRgJ. > > To post to this group, send email to > [2][2]puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [3][3]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > [4][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 > [5]puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [6]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > [7]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > References > > Visible links > > 1. 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