> Here is a tool that lets Solaris sysadmins ensure that a particular SMF /
> svc property is set in a particular fashion.
> In particular, I'm going to be using it to make sure that
> /network/smtp:sendmail  config/local_only = true
> I've tried to code it so that it can handle all sorts of properties though.

Awesome.

> I looked at the "forge" thing, and the "puppet-module" tool.
> Sad to say, I did not like it, for this purpose. It seems too complex
> compared to the alternatives.

Do you really think its hard? I was under the impression it was
relatively easy these days.

>From a user perspective its really just about doing 'puppet module
install foobar-modulename' ...

> For the record, I deploy puppet by downloading the tarfiles, and running
> ruby install.rb
>
> So.. I'm going to publicly release my sysprop type here for now.
> Future versions may probably be found on my website,
> http://www.bolthole.com, but I cant give a specific url for now, because I'm
> not sure whether I'm going to make a puppet/ subsection or not
> Depends on whether or not I write more providers.
> Since I'm not sure how  google groups, or the actual mailing list, handles
> attachments, I'm going old school and using shar for this :)
> If you have "unshar", just run it on this post. If you dont, then hand-trim
> out the top part and feed it directly to 'sh'.

I know there is no school like the old school - but this sounds much
much harder then using the Puppet Module tool - IMHO :-).

> If you like, (and you're very trusting :) you should be able to extract
> directly in the "puppet" dir, and the two files will go to where they
> belong.

So okay - the way I read this was that the tool is to be unpacked
inside the Puppet core source files? Am I mistaken here? Ordinarily
'modules' are kept away from the core files - as plugins shouldn't be
mixed with core.

ken.

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