On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Ace <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to manage cronjobs as a " file " in solaris through puppet and
> not using the puppet cron resource.
>
> I will be managing the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root.
>
> I want the cron file to be same across all servers except some servers
> will have additional cron entries.
>
> How can I append to the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root , something
> like appendifnosuchline in cfengine?
>
> Can "appendifnosuchline" be implemented through puppet even through
> the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root is being managed through
> puppet?
>
There are a bunch of recipes around where people construct an Exec with an
onlyif/unless conditional to achieve this.
Here's something I just whipped up that looks to work ok.
define appendifnosuchline($file="", $line="") {
exec { "appendline_${file}_${line}":
path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
command => "echo ${text} >> ${line}",
unless => "grep -qx ${text} ${line}",
}
}
appendifnosuchline { "ensure_foobar_in_filetest":
file => "/tmp/filetest",
line => "foobar",
}
You could do something trickier with composite namevars, but this works.
You don't want to do this and manage the *contents* of the file with Puppet.
You'll get changes on every run then.
You can however manage the attributes of the file, and could require the
given File resource when using the defined type so that those settings are
always applied first.
>
> Thanks,
> Ace
>
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