You can use the noop parameter to avoid modifications, and the tagmail feature to receive an email notification just for this resource.
Regards, El 25/04/2014 16:22, "Dan Pasacrita" <[email protected]> escribió: > Hey everyone, first I want to say that I joined this community a few days > ago and already you guys have been amazingly helpful. > > One thing that's been puzzling me lately is how I can have puppet examine > a directory, compare its contents against a source, but only notify you if > anything is missing. I know I can have it automatically sync the contents > with the following: > > file { '/path/to/file': > ensure => "directory", > recurse => "remote", > mode => 755, > source => "/path/to/source", > } > > But is there any way for it to *just* check the directory, and not move > anything over? Maybe it can run an exec command if it doesn't find every > file that it needs to? One thing I was looking at was the creates > parameter, like this: > > exec { "/bin/echo absent >> /home/dpasacrita/absent.txt ": > creates => "/home/user_name/test_dir", > } > > which will create a text file if the directory "test_dir" is absent. This > works, but it can't check the contents, since there's no source to compare > them to. So I don't think that's the right way to go about it. > > Any ideas? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7d2d3710-f2b6-41b2-88c5-dbeb53fff820%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7d2d3710-f2b6-41b2-88c5-dbeb53fff820%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAF_B3de4r29wWXs423Lx7EyMY%3DKrh4tERPTO7VwPSpJiDsuswg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
