Tom Brown wrote: > Hi > > The below is from a colleague who is trying to get puppet to create some > config dir's and then within those dir's put some files. > He expereinces issues where sometimes this works but mostly it does not. > Is this the correct way to be trying to achieve this? > > thanks > > -------- > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/$env.env": ensure => 'directory' } > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/$env.env/conf": ensure => > 'directory' } > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/$env.env/etc": ensure => > 'directory' } > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/current.env": ensure => "/var/ > app/$serviceName/$env.env" } > > package { "$serviceName": ensure => latest } > > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/current.env/conf/lus- > discovery.properties": > content => template("$serviceName/lus- > discovery.properties"), > mode => 644, owner => $uid, group => $gid, > replace => true, > } > > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/current.env/etc/ > component.properties": > source => "puppet:///$serviceName/ component.properties", > mode => 644, owner => $uid, group => $gid, > replace => true, > } > > file { "/var/app/$serviceName/current.env/etc/tomcat.sysprops": > content => template("$serviceName/tomcat.sysprops"), > mode => 644, owner => $uid, group => $gid, > replace => true, > } > -------- > > when directories (links) do not exist it may or may not deploy the files > (usually fails on the second one). > > dirs are always created on the first run, so if it fails and i re-run > puppet, all files would be deployed.
I don't see anything obviously responsible for creating /var/app/$serviceName there. Assuming that the package installation creates it, you need to use before/requires statements to tell puppet to always install the package before attempting to create the various config files in locations that otherwise wouldn't exist. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---