Hello Brian,
On Mar 31, 3:24 pm, Brian Wingenroth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/31/10 5:37 PM, Terra wrote:
>
>
>
> > Greetings,
>
> > I'm having a bit of a problem where file{} doesn't support globbing...
>
> > Say I have the following directory tree:
> > /foo (mode: 0751)
> > /foo/bar1
> > /foo/baz1
> > /foo/random1
> > ...
> > /foo/randomN
>
> > All subdirectories under '/foo' can be arbitrary names...
>
> > How I would like to be able to express this, which won't work...
> > file { "/foo/*": mode => 700; }
>
> > What comes close is:
> > file { "/foo": mode => 700, recurse => "true", recurselimit => 1; }
>
> > The problem with that, is '/foo' is also set to mode 700, when it
> > should remain mode 751...
>
> > What is the proper way to express the above in Puppet, in the absence
> > of globbing capabilities, when I want to make changes _only_ to the
> > files and/or directories contained _within_ the specified directory
> > while leaving the specified directory alone?
>
> > I feel like I'm missing something really obvious... :(
>
> You can use an exec and call chmod or find depending on whether you want
> a hard recurselimit or not:
>
> exec { "find /foo -exec chmod 700 {} \;": }
>
> or
>
> exec { "find /foo -maxdepth 1 -exec chmod 700 {} \;": }
>
I could go that route, but it seemed like the thermonuclear
option... ;)
I was hoping that there was a way for Puppet to remember the
subdirectories and only chmod on new subdirectories that are not mode
700...
or if that is too complicated to support internally, then something
simple like:
If file{} had globbing ability, then
[pseudo] file { "/foo/*": ... }
for item in /foo/*
if item is not a directory: then continue
if item mode != 700: then chmod 700 item
I guess I'm just a little hesitant to do this via a crafted
exec{"find"} type solution, because it is going to be fired off on
every puppet run regardless if it is needed or not...
It would appear that file{ recurselimit } emulates: find -maxdepth
Perhaps a new file{} parameter that emulates: find -mindepth
(recursemin)
So, something like this would work:
file { "/foo": mode => 700, recursemin => 1, recurselimit => 1; }
if recursemin => 0, then include "/foo" and would be the default if
not specified
If 'recursemin' was added, then for naming purposes, 'recursemax ==
recurselimit'
Thanks for the feedback Brian!
--
Terra
> Brian
>
>
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > --
> > Terra
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