#3 is actually what we do now. we always get a bunch of errors on the first pass through, then the second pass through works fine. That of course was before I changed the manifest to just loop through the users. Whoever wrote the file statically called each user and group resource. My preliminary testing after changing the code and rearranging it has been good, so I think #2 applies to me now. I didn't see any errors related to groups not existing, but I'll need to retest on a clean box to make sure. If I still get errors then I'll look into possibly putting them into their own classes and requiring the class.
Thanks for your responses they are what I was looking for. Joshua Schaeffer On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 9:29:34 PM UTC-7, John Gelnaw wrote: > > I can think of three options: > > 1) Break the user / group definitions into their own classes, and > "require" the group class in your user definition class. > > 2) In some cases, Puppet does an implicit require-- it's possible your > code would work as-is, and the catalog would recognize the need to create > groups first. I don't know if this is expected behavior or not any longer, > but perhaps one of the devs could comment. Since they're defined in the > same class, I would hope Puppet would be smart enough to recognize the need > to define a group before defining a user that's a member of that group. > > 3) Don't worry about it-- let it fail. I run puppet twice per hour, and > if it can't define the user because the group is missing, it can still > define the group on the first pass. Then the next pass, the user will get > created, because this time the group already exists. Ugly, mildly > irritating, but still effective. Obviously, this isn't a good option if > you're paying attention to the exit status of the puppet run, but if you're > just running the puppet agent every so often, should be fine. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/e090ed9a-2e33-4888-8b40-921371e6df33%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
