Hi Calvin,
that works great :) ! thanks!
/Axel.
Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 14:11:27 UTC+2 schrieb Calvin Walton:
>
> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 22:53 -0700, Axel Bock wrote:
> > Hello readers,
> >
> > I might have the need for something like "delete all unmanaged files".
> > Explanation: I am creating a bunch of apache config files, which contain
> > information about the hostname and the port they're listening on. Now if
> I
> > change the host name - or the port - the last generated file keeps
> sitting
> > there, and does nothing in the best case (rarely ;), and provokes errors
> in
> > all others.
> >
> > Now because _all_ config files in those directories are generated by me
> &
> > puppet I wondered if there's a method to find out which files are _not_
> > genereated by puppet, and simply delete them.
>
> This is pretty easy to do; the functionality is built into puppet. You
> just have to add a File resource for the directory, and set recurse =>
> true, purge => true, like so:
>
> file { '/etc/apache/sites-enabled':
> ensure => 'directory',
> recurse => true,
> purge => true,
> }
>
> Make sure you read the documentation for details:
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#file
>
> --
> Calvin Walton <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>
>
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