> On 01/26/2012 08:14 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> One thing about a well-written piece of generic code is that it can be used
>> in many environments. A lot of my modules do things like "do I have an
>> external interface or am I behind the firewall?" and do different things
>> based on those answers
Hi,
On 01/26/2012 08:14 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> One thing about a well-written piece of generic code is that it can be used
> in many environments. A lot of my modules do things like "do I have an
> external interface or am I behind the firewall?" and do different things
> based on those answers.
On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Christopher Wood wrote:
> (Define "generalized"?)
Works in more than one specific situation.
> Also, could you expound? I don't know any production scenario where it's
> desirable to have anything other than "an exact known configuration of hosts".
One thing about
On 25/01/12 16:59, Christopher Wood wrote:
> Also, could you expound? I don't know any production scenario where it's
> desirable to have anything other than "an exact known configuration of hosts".
Well, it's one thing to have an exact known and audited configuration.
It'd be another to try and
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:53:15AM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Nick wrote:
> > But then I have to anticipate every possible value of $shell and define
> > resources for them. Anything which is not defined like this is not usable
> > within the scheme, because there will b
On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Nick wrote:
> But then I have to anticipate every possible value of $shell and define
> resources for them. Anything which is not defined like this is not usable
> within the scheme, because there will be no file resource to realize and
> require. And of course, it al
On 25/01/12 14:57, Nan Liu wrote:
>> To sum up, it appears that this feature is missing for a reason, but why?
>> And
>> what's the best workaround available?
>
> I'm assuming you mean if a resources exist in the catalog and not the
> question of whether a file exist on the agent since they are
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Nick wrote:
> I want to assert a file exists - but in a way that doesn't have the potential
> to
> create conflicting resource definitions.
>
> I know this has been asked many times before:
>
> "How can I check whether a file exists, like 'File.exists?(file)'
>
Hi,
I want to assert a file exists - but in a way that doesn't have the potential to
create conflicting resource definitions.
I know this has been asked many times before:
"How can I check whether a file exists, like 'File.exists?(file)'
or '-f $file'?"
My very specific use case is with a u
