Thanks Felix. I do want it to fire all the time, and I will add
"noop=false" to be explicit.
but it does not look safe as the $content could contain single quotes,
could it not?
> $content = inline_template(...)
>
> exec { "generate_facts_yaml":
> command => "/bin/false",
> unless => "echo '$content' > /path/to/file",
> }
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Felix Frank
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> someone also suggested I used an Exec resource like so:
>>
>> exec { "generate_facts_yaml":
>> command => "/bin/false",
>> unless => "do the real work here",
>> }
>>
>> Can I generate a file's content, from an inline template, in an Exec
>> like above? How can I do that?
>
> Bah, that's an ugly hack.
>
> You might want to try:
>
> $content = inline_template(...)
>
> exec { "generate_facts_yaml":
> command => "/bin/false",
> unless => "echo '$content' > /path/to/file",
> }
>
> Note that despite never logging anything, this *will* fire on each
> catalog run. It's bound to disturb whoever else needs to maintain your
> manifests. Don't do it if you can avoid it in any possible way.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
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