That's only true if you use symlinks. Hard links wouldn't have that
issue, though Puppet currently can't handle those with the file{} resource.
However, the above point is almost irrelevant, because if you have
people going around and randomly deleting files in /etc, I would argue
that you have a WAY bigger problem than being worried about whether or
not a MOTD is displayed, and one that can't be solved with configuration
management software.
- Peter
On 9/18/2016 4:42 AM, Warron French wrote:
Hi, thanks Peter.
I am writing this module to write it based on the design I have had
because... being a little lazy I guess you might say/think. I know
that I could do a link, but I believe for something like this an
actual file might be required, because if the main file is deleted,
then the banner is lost entirely because the links will be broken.
Thanks.
On 9/16/2016 3:25 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
You can create arrays of identical resources:
file { [ '/etc/motd',
'/etc/issue',
'/etc/issue.net',
]:
ensure => file,
owner => 0,
group => 0,
content => template('manage_banners/some_banner_text.erb'),
}
Under the hood, when the catalog is compiled, it still gets split out
into 3 separate resources that are managed independently, but in your
manifests you can define them as a single block.
The other option, if these 3 files are always to be the same, is to
pick one to put the actual content into and then use symlinks or
hardlinks for the other two files.
On 2016-09-16 02:54 PM, Warron French wrote:
Its probably easiest to explain what I want to accomplish.
I want to create the following 3 files: */etc/motd, /etc/issue,
/etc/issue.net* from a single (1) puppet file resource using the
content => template('template.erb') syntax.
I don't want to create 3 separate file resources and use the exact
same syntax three (3) times.
I have a class (I am a novice puppet code) and here is what I have
in it so far...
class manage_banners::text {
{ file '/etc/motd':
ensure => 'file',
owner => '0',
group => '0',
content => template('some_banner_text.erb'),
}
}
class manage_banners::gdm {
<snippet ... nothing in here yet>
}
class manage_banners::kde {
<snippet ... nothing in here yet>
}
In the manage_banners::text class I don't want to place 3 file
resources (one for each of the /etc/ files).
I am thinking that there is a solution for this, but I don't know
how to keyword search for something like this.
Please help, and thank you,
Warron
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