Hi
> If this is not possible to achieve, then can the following be done with
> puppet:
>
> Make sure that the rsyslog service is NOT running, regardless of the package
> is installed or not. Using the service resource type to stop/disable a
> service gives an error if the init script doesn't exists. And I don't wish
> to run "ensure => absent" on the rsyslog package.
I think the error on an absent init script should be fixed in 0.24.6.
at least for redhat based systems.
> Please point me to the right documentation, or let me know if this is not a
> case for puppet.
>
> Btw, I see that the package resource type has some read-only parameters
> (such as status). How can these be utilized in a puppet recipe? I can't seem
> to find any documentation on this.
this would somehow sometimes be nice. However I don't think it's
possible and I event think that it isn't really needed and might lead
to many other problems, as maybe one should simply try to solve the
problem in a different way.
>> Can I use puppet conditionals to check if a package is installed/available
>> for install, and act depending on the result?
>> More precisely, this is what I'd like to do:
>>
>> 1. If package rsyslog is installed or available for install, then
>> include class that configures rsyslog
>> 2. Else, configure the stock sysklogd
>>
>> I'm running puppet v0.24.4.
you could write a custom fact which checks if rsyslog is avaiable to
install (which would mean that it might as well already be installed)
and then do a conditional include statement:
if $rsyslog_avaiable {
include rsyslog
} else {
include sysklogd
}
then the rsyslog class would look like:
class rsyslog {
package{'rsyslog': ensure => installed }
[...rest of your stuff...]
}
cheers pete
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