Another thought :
Unless I chain them together…
file{} -> exec{} -> service{}
what would keep the service from trying to start before the exec has run ?
Would adding “ require => Exec['/sbin/ifup eth0’], “ to the service resource
mess things up ?
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Dan White <d_e_wh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks.
> I was not trying it that way, but I believe I will. I see where my approach
> was borked.
> Unfortunately, it means some non-trivial refactoring.
> But (and thanks a second time for an opportunity to use this line)
> "It's like the chicken said, Launchpad, 'You knew the job was dangerous when
> you took it' ! "
> “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)
>
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 03:37 PM, Christopher Wood <christopher_w...@pobox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Possibly something like this? If you've already tried this, what was the
>> result?
>>
>> file { '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0':
>> # stuff here
>> }
>>
>> exec { '/sbin/ifup eth0':
>> refreshonly => true,
>> subscribe => File['/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0'],
>> notify => Service['mysql'],
>> }
>>
>> service { 'mysql':
>> # stuff
>> }
>>
>> (Store the ip information in hiera and template your mysql.cnf as well as
>> ifcfg-eth0 with the same data.)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 07:40:38PM +0000, Dan White wrote:
>>> Red Hat / CentOS 6.x with Puppet 3.7.x
>>> Creating a new network interface is easy:
>>> Create the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(whatever) file and then
>>> refresh the network service.
>>> Now the problem: If I want to run something off that new interface -- like
>>> a MySQL server -- how do I express the dependency to get the interface
>>> running before trying to start the service to run on it ?
>>> I have been unsuccessful in making it happen in a single puppet run.
“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)
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