tidy puppet type works recursively too.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:19 PM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:28:44 AM UTC-6, bluethundr wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way using puppet to delete the home directories recursively of
>> employees who have left the company?
>>
>> So far I've tried:
>>
>> file { "/export/home/user":
>> name => "$home_dir/user",
>> ensure => 'absent'
>> }
>>
>> I also tried
>>
>>
>>
>> file{'export/home/user':
>> name => "$home_dir/user",
>> purge => true,
>> recurse => true,
>> force => true,
>> backup => false,
>> }
>>
>> But neither worked. Is there a way to do this with puppet currently?
>>
>>
>
> If you don't want to or can't do this via User resources, then it ought to
> work to add "ensure => absent" in your second version.
>
> Alternatively, you can always resort to
>
> exec { "Remove ${user}'s Home":
> command => "/bin/rm -rf ${home_dir}/${user}",
> onlyif => "/usr/bin/test -e ${home_dir}/${user}"
> }
>
>
> John
>
>
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