Re: [Puppet Users] ensuring a directory is empty

2013-11-25 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > I'm looking for something like: > > file { "/home/someuser/.ssh": > ensure => present-but-recreate-if-existing > } Well, you still want ensure => directory. But take a look at the purge param: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/referen

[Puppet Users] ensuring a directory is empty

2013-11-25 Thread Stuart Cracraft
I have a requirement to ensure that /home/someuser/.ssh is empty at the start of an initialization. It can be removed completely What is the Puppet way to ensure a directory is empty prior to it being created? I'm looking for something like: file { "/home/someuser/.ssh": ensure => presen