On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Bishop<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough, I learned about the require keyword when I did this
> same thing, but left out the 'require'. And (even using 0.24.8), I had
> problems where it tried to copy the file into a non-existent directory.
> Adding the 'require' line made that go away...
You probably didn't have the parent directory defined though right?
Puppet won't just create directories that aren't defined, but if you have:
file { "/opt/foo":
ensure => directory,
...
}
file { "/opt/foo/file":
...
}
then you don't need to explicitly do the require as Puppet will ensure
the parent directory is applied before the child.
>
> David
>
> P.S. BTW, Jason, the root cause of your confusion is that you are
> approaching this as a procedural/functional thing, instead of a 'state'
> problem. What you should be doing with puppet, 99.9% of the time, is
> describing the state that you would like your system to be in, and then
> let puppet take care of the details. I.e., if you find yourself writing
> 'exec' statements to do stuff like create directories, then you're
> probably doing it wrong. Note the benefits: if the /opt/scripts
> directory exists but is set to 0200, or is owned by a user, or has a
> group ownership of uucp, then puppet will fix it. In your 'exec mkdir'
> scenario, all puppet would do is see if the directory exists. Using
> puppet to it's fullest potential takes a shift in how you think about
> the problem, but it's generally worth it. Note: I'm nowhere near
> "there"! I'm a newbie on the road, same as you...
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:29:54PM -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, David Bishop<[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Re-do that as:
>> >
>> > class theclass {
>> > file { "/opt/scripts":
>> > ensure => "directory",
>> > owner => "root",
>> > group => "root",
>> > mode => 755,
>> > }
>> >
>> > file { "/opt/scripts/my_script.sh":
>> > owner => "root",
>> > group => "thegroup",
>> > mode => 770,
>> > source => "puppet:///files/my_script.sh",
>> > require => File['/opt/scripts'],
>> > }
>> > }
>> >
>> > That way, it won't copy down my_script.sh without first creating
>> > /opt/scripts.
>>
>> Note that if you have a file resource defined as well as the parent
>> directory, the require is automatic, so you don't have to explicitly
>> state it.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:00:47AM -0700, jason wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I want to create a directory and THEN get files into that directory on
>> >> a client.
>> >> Puppet it seems does not follow the order of commands, like below in
>> >> my example.
>> >> Sometimes it creates the directory, then downloads the file, and
>> >> sometimes it tries to download the file before creating the directory,
>> >> so the file won't be downloaded.
>> >>
>> >> How can I download a file and make certain the destination directory
>> >> will be there before this file is downloaded? thanks again! -jason
>> >>
>> >> class theclass (
>> >>
>> >> exec{'mkdir -p /opt/scripts':
>> >> unless => 'test -d /opt/scripts',
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> file { "/opt/scripts/my_script.sh":
>> >> owner => "root",
>> >> group => "thegroup",
>> >> mode => 770,
>> >> source => "puppet:///files/my_script.sh",
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> )
>> >>
>> >> >>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Nigel Kersten
>> [email protected]
>> System Administrator
>> Google, Inc.
>>
>> >>
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Nigel Kersten
[email protected]
System Administrator
Google, Inc.
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