Your link is for posting a new message to this group on Google Groups. Perhaps you wanted this: http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/remove-duplicated-file-resource-attributes.html
You say you want to check file permission/ownership. Do you want to make any changes if things are not how you want them ? Subtle, but different. Any file managed by Puppet can be controlled. However, Puppet does not (directly) do anything to any file it does not manage. The above cookbook-example will not set permission/ownership to any file not explicitly managed. Do you plan to manage all these files in Puppet ? If not, another approach is needed. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "root" <clri.c0t...@gmail.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 2:29:27 PM Subject: [Puppet Users] crapload of files to check permissions and ownership Very new to Puppet and I need to create a class that checks the file permissions and ownership for 60- 100 files. Some of the files will be named differenty or have a different path depending on the OS. I am aware of the core_permissions class demonstrated in the Puppet 3.0 Quick Start, and I have read "Reduce Duplicated File Attributes" here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!newtopic/puppet-users That document advocates setting a default set of attributes for the File resource, and then nest all the declarations inside one resource statement, like so: File { ensure => "present", owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 644, } file { "/etc/cobbler/modules.conf": content => template("cobbler/modules.conf"); "/etc/cobbler/dhcp.template": content => template("cobbler/dhcp.template"); # override the permissions for this one file "/etc/cobbler/users.digest": source => "puppet:///modules/cobbler/users.digest.live", mode => 660; } This looks kind of ugly to me. Anyone figure out a nicer way to do this? I will only be checking "ensure", "mode", "owner" and "group". I want the class to be readable to admins who are new to Puppet, but I don't want to have a separate "file" declaration for each file. Thanks. -- 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 . -- 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.
