It is described in the metaparameters section
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/metaparameter.html
Regards,
El 25/04/2014 20:31, "Dan Pasacrita" <whitewind...@gmail.com> escribió:
> Thanks dude, noop was exactly what I was looking for. I'm wondering why
> the Documentation doesn't point out this feature more, because I don't
> recall ever seeing it.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:54 AM, José Luis Ledesma <
> joseluis.lede...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You can use the noop parameter to avoid modifications, and the tagmail
>> feature to receive an email notification just for this resource.
>>
>> Regards,
>> 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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