Functions are executed on the master, not on the agent, so they won't do
what you need.
If you really want to run code on the client it has to be a type/provider.
If it is only "test -e", use "File%creates".
Regards, David
On 24.06.2013 03:59, Michael Dodwell wrote:
Take a look at
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_functions.html you could write
your own fuctions to give you something like this.
Puppet hasn't really been designed to be low overhead (with more of a
focus on simplicity) and i think the least of it's performance problems
come from the fact that it uses an external fork for exec checks.
On Sunday, June 23, 2013 8:39:57 PM UTC+10, Amos Shapira wrote:
Hi,
A little annoyance about "exec" that bothers me is that there is no
way to use "unless"/"onlyif" except with external commands, even if
a simple Ruby function could be used to execute the test.
e.g. "onlyif => 'test -d /data'" will fork and exec "test" to do a
simple stat(2) which can be done with much less overhead with Ruby's
"File.directory?('/data')".
How about allowing passing a none-string value to Exec's
onlyif/unless attributes, and consider that as the result? If it's a
string then it will be treated as today, otherwise it will be
treated as a boolean.
I don't think this will break any backward compatibility since all
Exec's currently expect strings to execute.
Cheers,
--Amos
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