On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:13:03 PM UTC-5, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
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> On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:25:13 PM UTC-5, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:30:47 AM UTC-5, Matthew Burgess wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Ugo Bellavance <ug...@lubik.ca> wrote:
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>>> > However, I would need to push a different file to my NTP servers (the
>>> > puppet://$puppet_server/files/ntp.conf) are for clients. How can I do
>>> that?
>>> > Can I simply declare my two servers in a node declaration and set a
>>> variable
>>> > in it and then use a puppet:// path that includes a variable?
>>>
>>> The simplest option here is to just do the following, taking your
>>> existing ntp.conf file stanza as an example:
>>>
>>> class ntpd {
>>> package { "ntp":
>>> ensure => installed,
>>> }
>>> file { "/etc/ntp.conf":
>>> owner => root,
>>> group => root,
>>> mode => 0644,
>>> source => ["puppet://$puppet_server/files/ntp.conf.$host,
>>> "puppet://$puppet_server/files/ntp.conf"],
>>> require => Package["ntp"]
>>> }
>>>
>>> Puppet will use the first file that it finds in the "source" array.
>>> For a more in depth explanation, see the 'source' parameter
>>> description at
>>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.0.latest/type.html#file.
>>>
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>> Ok, so the process would be to first change my config to have the two
>> sources as you described, then have a file that has the "ntp server" confi,
>> called ntp.conf.ntp1.mydomain.com and symlink it to
>> ntp.conf.ntp2.mydomain.com?
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> I tested it and at first it didn't work, so I changed $host for $fqdn. I
> tested it and it worked. I haven't tested the symlink yet but I'll do that
> tonight.
>
It didn't work with the symlink so I did a simple copy. I don't know if a
hard link would have worked but the copy works and it is not that bad to
maintain.
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