Hi Suhan,
You can create a resource[1] for creating directories and use it to create
directories with parents.
For example
define create_dir ($path){
exec {
command => "mkdir ${path}",
}
}
(I think you should ask puppet related stuff on puppet mailing lists/forums
:) )
[1]
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_defined_types.html
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Suhan Dharmasuriya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using ubuntu 14.04 and puppet version 3.4.3 for both master and agent.
>
> Say currently there are no folders or file inside agent's /tmp/ directory.
> When attempting to create a directory structure as follows,
> # create a directory
> file { "/tmp/dbscripts/mysql/":
> ensure => "directory",
> }
>
> Error thrown saying,
> root@elb-1:~# puppet agent -t
> Info: Retrieving plugin
> Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/java_home.rb
> Info: Caching catalog for elb-1.openstacklocal
> Info: Applying configuration version '1420519752'
> *Error: Cannot create /tmp/dbscripts/mysql; parent directory
> /tmp/dbscripts does not exist*
> Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[elb-1]/File[/tmp/dbscripts/mysql/]/ensure:
> change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /tmp/dbscripts/mysql;
> parent directory /tmp/dbscripts does not exist
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[elb-1]/File[/tmp/dbscripts/mysql/welcome
> file.xml]: Dependency File[/tmp/dbscripts/mysql/] has failures: true
> Warning: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[elb-1]/File[/tmp/dbscripts/mysql/welcome
> file.xml]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
> Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.06 seconds
>
> There is a Feature logged in puppetlabs (Feature #86) to address this
> issue [1].
>
> Workaround provided by puppetlabs is as follows.
> # create a directory
> file {['/tmp/dbscripts','/tmp/dbscripts/mysql']:
> ensure => "directory",
> }
>
> It is successful.
>
> When more number of non-existing parent directories present in the path,
> more array elements to be given.
> file {['/top','/top/second','/top/second/deep','/top/second/deep/deepest
> ']:
> ensure => directory
> }
>
> We are planning to parameterise the path of the directories to be created.
>
> After parameterising if we do as above workaround, we have to retrieve the
> path and break down it into an array as above and then create the folder
> structure.
>
> Is there a better, cleaner puppet workaround than the given one above?
>
> [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/86
> [2]
> https://github.com/ghoneycutt/puppet-module-common/blob/master/manifests/mkdir_p.pp
>
> Thanks,
> Suhan
> --
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> Software Engineer - Test Automation
>
> *WSO2, Inc. *
>
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>
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