On 2013-09-26, at 0303, Rahul Khengare <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John,
> Read my previous reply,
>
> file { '/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf' :
> ensure => file ,
> mode => 0644 ,
> owner => 0 ,
> group => 0 ,
> content => template ( "${module_name}${name}.erb" ) ,
> notify => Service['httpd'] ,
> require => Package['httpd'] ,
> }
>
> The '/' is missing in between ${module_name} and ${name}
Sorry, but I wrote the line this way specifically because the first character
of the value of $name is "/". Adding an extra "/" between "${module_name}" and
"${name}" would result in "apache//xxx.erb". Presumably the "//" wouldn't hurt
anything (the Linux kernel ignores the empty directory element between the two
slashes when resolving the filename), but it wouldn't have helped either.
I did, however, figure out what the problem was. In this case, it was confusion
caused by either less-than-perfect documentation, or my own less-than-perfect
understanding of that documentation.
The confusion has to do with what the $name variable actually is. Essentially,
it does not refer to the item you're declaring (in this case, a file.) It
refers to the object WITHIN WHICH you are declaring it.
So for a file declared within a class...
class apache {
file { 'blah' :
ensure => file ,
content => template ( "${module_name}${name}.erb" ) ,
}
}
the value of $name is "apache" (the name of the class.)
And for a file declared within a define...
class apache {
define configfile {
file { $name :
ensure => file ,
content => template ( "${module_name}${name}.erb" ) ,
}
}
configfile { '/etc/httpd/conf.d/01_aaa.conf' : }
configfile { '/etc/httpd/conf.d/02_bbb.conf' : }
}
the value of $name, in both locations, is the value with which that "define" is
later instantiated.
So in the second example, $name would be either "/etc/httpd/conf.d/01_aaa.conf"
or "/etc/httpd/conf.d/02_bbb.conf", depending on which "configfile" object is
being instantiated at the time.
The real problem I was trying to solve is that I didn't want to have to type
each filename twice, primarily because it opens up a potential source of errors
if the names aren't typed exactly the same. Creating a "wrapper" around the
file object allows the same name to be used multiple times, without having to
worry about the name potentially not being identical. It also allowed me to
include several other elements (such as "owner", "mode", and "notify") which
would otherwise have had to be duplicated.
My thanks to everybody who offered advice.
--
John Simpson <[email protected]>
Unix System/VM Developer and Engineering Operations, Voalte
+1 (941) 312-2830 x148
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