Is there a way to validate rsyslog and rsyslog5 if both not installed
install rsyslog.
Thanks,
Kumar
On Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 3:33:45 AM UTC-8, Peter Meier wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > If this is not possible to achieve, then can the following be done with
> > puppet:
> >
> > Make sure that the rsyslog service is NOT running, regardless of the
> package
> > is installed or not. Using the service resource type to stop/disable a
> > service gives an error if the init script doesn't exists. And I don't
> wish
> > to run "ensure => absent" on the rsyslog package.
>
> I think the error on an absent init script should be fixed in 0.24.6.
> at least for redhat based systems.
>
> > Please point me to the right documentation, or let me know if this is
> not a
> > case for puppet.
> >
> > Btw, I see that the package resource type has some read-only parameters
> > (such as status). How can these be utilized in a puppet recipe? I can't
> seem
> > to find any documentation on this.
>
> this would somehow sometimes be nice. However I don't think it's
> possible and I event think that it isn't really needed and might lead
> to many other problems, as maybe one should simply try to solve the
> problem in a different way.
>
> >> Can I use puppet conditionals to check if a package is
> installed/available
> >> for install, and act depending on the result?
> >> More precisely, this is what I'd like to do:
> >>
> >> 1. If package rsyslog is installed or available for install, then
> >> include class that configures rsyslog
> >> 2. Else, configure the stock sysklogd
> >>
> >> I'm running puppet v0.24.4.
>
> you could write a custom fact which checks if rsyslog is avaiable to
> install (which would mean that it might as well already be installed)
> and then do a conditional include statement:
>
> if $rsyslog_avaiable {
> include rsyslog
> } else {
> include sysklogd
> }
>
> then the rsyslog class would look like:
>
> class rsyslog {
> package{'rsyslog': ensure => installed }
> [...rest of your stuff...]
> }
>
> cheers pete
>
>
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