Leam:
The reason you are getting the 400 Error is because you don't have
$osfamily defined.
You can write your case statement as such:
case $::osfamily {
'redhat': {
# do something RHEL specific
}
'debian': {
# do something Debian specific
}
default: {
# ...
}
}
Thanks
Joey
On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 10:55:50 AM UTC-5, leam hall wrote:
>
> Trying to use a case statement with a setup.pp file that uses hiera and
> parameters. We have pulled a module from the forge and are trying to make
> it fit our needs.
>
> The issue I'm trying to resolve is to have the user's home directories
> created on /home/$user on Red hat systems and /export/home/$user on Solaris
> nodes. So far I've tried to use a case statement based on osfamily, but I'm
> getting an error.
>
> Code:
> define sysusers::setup($hash) {
>
> if(!defined(User[$name])) {
> user { $name :
> case $osfamily {
> 'RedHat': { home => "/home/$hash[$name]['name']"}
> 'Solaris': { home => "/export/home/$hash[$name]['name']"}
> default: { home => "/home/$hash[$name]['name']"}
> }
> ensure => $hash[$name]['ensure'],
> comment => $hash[$name]['comment'],
> expiry => $hash[$name]['expiry'],
> gid => $hash[$name]['gid'],
>
> Error:
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Syntax error at 'osfamily'; expected '}' at
> /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/theblack/modules/sysusers/manifests/setup.pp:5
>
> Module:
> https://forge.puppetlabs.com/mthibaut/users
>
> Case statement reference:
>
> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_conditional.html#case-statements
>
> On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:18:05 PM UTC-5, leam hall wrote:
>>
>> We have a mixed environment. I wrote a module that would only do stuff on
>> Red Hat family boxes. Under the class definition I put:
>>
>> if $::osfamily == 'RedHat' {
>>
>> and did all the package and file definitions under that. Is there a
>> better or cleaner way to do this?
>>
>> Leam
>>
>>
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