Jagga,
It’s a simple error. You need to remove the square brackets from around your
conditional test. Puppet is evaluating it as an array, and since puppet treats
all non-boolean values (other than undef) as true, you will never get to the
else block.
—
Peter
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 10:13 PM, Jagga Soorma <jagg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am using foreman and puppet to provision/manage systems. I have a simple
> motd module that I was using for all my systems but now have a need to setup
> a different motd for a specific hostgroup/type of systems. So, I though I
> would use the hostgroup hiera setup from foreman/puppet to decide which motd
> to use. I wrote something quickly to test but have unexpected results and
> was hoping someone here can help me make sense of this:
>
> --
> my hostgroup for system 1 is CSOE73_Prod/hpc/misc and for system 2 is
> CSOE73_Prod/hpc/compute. So I decided to write the code this way:
>
> if [$hostgroup == 'CSOE73_Prod/hpc/misc'] {
> file { "/etc/motd":
> ensure => file,
> content => template('clientos/motd.erb')
> }
> }
> else {
> file { "/etc/motd":
> ensure => file,
> source => 'puppet:///modules/clientos/etc/motd
> <puppet:///modules/clientos/etc/motd>',
> mode => 644,
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> }
> }
> --
>
> However, for both systems the motd.erb template is being applied. However,
> my expectation was that for system 2 it would just use the files/etc/motd
> file. Is it maybe the backslash in CSOE73_Prod/hpc/misc that might be
> throwing it off? Am I going about this totally the wrong way?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> -J
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