Have you tried explicitly setting the ensure value - a la "ensure => file" - on
the files that might exist as symlinks? I tested this out locally and was able
to get Puppet to overwrite a symlink with a file declaration.
On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> I've tried that as well. It doesn't work.
>
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:34:00 PM UTC-6, Gary Larizza wrote:
> > You should be able to add "force => true" and get this to work for you
> >
> >
> > On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> >
> > > I am running Puppet 2.7.x (x varies from 14 to 20 on different machines).
> > > I am trying to use Puppet to deploy a new Zabbix agent configuration
> > > file. On all machines where the file wasn't a symlink, the deployment
> > > worked. However, every machine where it is a link, Puppet refuses to
> > > replace teh link with a regular file or do anything with it.
> > >
> > > I've read the type reference, and I see nothing specific about forcing
> > > symlink replacement. I've looked at the source, and it seems like
> > > remove_existing should be unlinking teh symlink ahead of my new file.
> > > But, it isn't happening. Any suggestions on hwo to do this?
> > >
> > > File {
> > > backup => main,
> > > owner => "root",
> > > group => $operatingsystem ? {
> > > freebsd => "wheel",
> > > default => "root",
> > > },
> > > mode => 644,
> > > ensure => present,
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > class zabbix {
> > > file {
> > > '/usr/local/etc/zabbix':
> > > ensure => 'directory';
> > > '/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf':
> > > content => template("zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.erb"),
> > > }
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > root@victor:~# ls -ld /usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
> > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 64 Dec 9 2011
> > > /usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf ->
> > > /usr/local/flightaware/monitor-scripts/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
> > >
> > >
> > > root@victor:~# puppet agent --test --debug --color=no | grep
> > > zabbix_agentd.conf 2>&1
> > > debug: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/Service[zabbix_agentd]/subscribe: subscribes
> > > to File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]
> > > debug:
> > > /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]:
> > > Autorequiring File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix]
> > > debug:
> > > /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]/mode:
> > > Not managing symlink mode
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
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