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El 25/04/2014 16:22, "Dan Pasacrita" <whitewind...@gmail.com> escribió:
> Hey everyone, first I want to say that I joined this community a few days
> ago and already you guys have been amazingly helpful.
>
> One thing that's been puzzling me lately is how I can have puppet examine
> a directory, compare its contents against a source, but only notify you if
> anything is missing. I know I can have it automatically sync the contents
> with the following:
>
> file { '/path/to/file':
> ensure => "directory",
> recurse => "remote",
> mode => 755,
> source => "/path/to/source",
> }
>
> But is there any way for it to *just* check the directory, and not move
> anything over? Maybe it can run an exec command if it doesn't find every
> file that it needs to? One thing I was looking at was the creates
> parameter, like this:
>
> exec { "/bin/echo absent >> /home/dpasacrita/absent.txt ":
> creates => "/home/user_name/test_dir",
> }
>
> which will create a text file if the directory "test_dir" is absent. This
> works, but it can't check the contents, since there's no source to compare
> them to. So I don't think that's the right way to go about it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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