Hi,
I think that the problem here is a big misunderstood about how puppet
works. Puppet DSL is a declarative language, you do not have to tell what
to do (grep "xxx" on file "yyy"), you have to tell which final state do you
want. Obviously this final state may depend on data (facts/hiera) but never
on an action (grep)
Moreover, puppet manifests are compiled in the puppetmaster (so if it
would be possible to do a grep or any other action, it would be made on the
master).
The problem you are facing is that the code
if "any string that you may want"
is always true (at least the string is empty) that's why always falls in
the first condition.
regards,
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Ray <raym...@rlscott.com> wrote:
> Newbie question:
> I need to be able to apply a specific template based on whether a string
> is found in an
> existing file on the client or not. I tried the following (found an
> example somewhere... it does not work.. always falls into the first
> condition)
>
> What would be the correct way to check for the value in the file?
>
>
> if "grep STANDARD /var/adm/buildIT/ServerBuild.dat 2>/dev/null"
> {
> file { '/etc/openssh/sshd_config':
> ensure => file,
> backup => false,
> content => template("sshdconfig/sshdconfigsol.erb"),
> notify => Service['ssh']
> }
>
> service { 'ssh':
> ensure => running,
> enable => true,
> hasstatus => true,
> hasrestart => true,
> }
> }
> else
> {
> file { '/etc/openssh/sshd_config':
> ensure => file,
> backup => false,
> content => template("sshdconfig/sshdconfigsolpm.erb"),
> notify => Service['ssh']
> }
>
> service { 'ssh':
> ensure => running,
> enable => true,
> hasstatus => true,
> hasrestart => true,
> }
> }
>
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