On Monday, 24 June 2013 15:40:14 UTC+10, David Schmitt wrote: > Functions are executed on the master, not on the agent, so they won't do > what you need. >
Yes I keep forgetting that. > > If you really want to run code on the client it has to be a type/provider. > I was hoping to get something like to be considered to be built into Puppet. > > If it is only "test -e", use "File%creates". > I know about "creates" parameter, but there are other tests which could be easily done with a ruby function/system-call (e.g. file size, type, content etc). > 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 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
