Thanks dude, noop was exactly what I was looking for. I'm wondering why the Documentation doesn't point out this feature more, because I don't recall ever seeing it.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:54 AM, José Luis Ledesma < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/DRdAGS4Xir8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAF_B3de4r29wWXs423Lx7EyMY%3DKrh4tERPTO7VwPSpJiDsuswg%40mail.gmail.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/CACLa9dWi%3D-3-NXOU8SVcefX0pEWwHRpg5CCK%2B5-d0eiBOso_xQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
