It is described in the metaparameters section http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/metaparameter.html
Regards, El 25/04/2014 20:31, "Dan Pasacrita" <[email protected]> escribió: > 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<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACLa9dWi%3D-3-NXOU8SVcefX0pEWwHRpg5CCK%2B5-d0eiBOso_xQ%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/CAF_B3dfMbjPJzfMPjf8%3DTmmLZH9koPEO_m_eoh_5W0X%2BBdhWVw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
