ok thanks alot!
// Mikael
On Monday, February 10, 2014 10:41:28 PM UTC+1, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 10, 2014 6:26:56 AM UTC-6, Mikael Lindqvist wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for a great program!
>>
>> I have one request though, and also wonder if there is some other way to
>> do this...
>>
>> when I have an exec task, such as:
>>
>> exec { "task":
>> command => "/bin/some/command",
>> creates => "/some/file/somewhere"
>> }
>>
>> It would be really nice if puppet could check for the existence of the
>> file, and report an error if it does not exist after command has executed.
>> Now the "creates" argument is only used to check if the file exists before
>> the command is run, in order to skip the command if it exists. Possible
>> syntax would be:
>>
>> exec { "task":
>> command => "/bin/some/command",
>> mustcreate => "/some/file/somewhere"
>> }
>>
>> Or is there some other method to achieve the same?
>>
>>
>
> Sure. You can do this:
>
> $mustcreate = '/some/file/somewhere'
>
> exec { 'mytask':
> command => '/bin/some/command',
> creates => ${mustcreate}
> }
>
> # In the event the Exec['mytask'] needs to be synced,
> # sometime after that sync ensure that the $mustcreate
> # file exists:
> exec { 'mytask-check':
> command => "test -e ${mustcreate}",
> subscribe => Exec['mytask'],
> refreshonly => true
> }
>
> If you want to do that a lot then you can minimize repetition of
> boilerplate by creating a defined type around that.
>
>
> John
>
>
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