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?
>>
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