Thanks alot that helped out big time!
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:42:42 AM UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Apr 4, 10:51 am, Jaakan Shorter wrote:
> > Here is the setup
> > Clients are all under /usr/home/ftp/$client
> > Internal Production is /usr/home/$internaluser
> >
> > I need to make slinks for every client folder under every Internal
> > Production ie: ln -s /usr/home/ftp/$client
> /usr/home/$internaluser/$client
> > Is there a way to do this from a list with in two files ( one for client
> > name and the other for internal user names)? where the list format would
> be
> > like : "username", "uid"
>
>
> Supposing that you want to manage these links directly via Puppet
> (instead of, for instance, via a script on each node) then you could
> do something like this:
>
> class ftp::data {
># More on these arrays later
>$clientnames = ...
>$internalusers = ...
> }
>
> define ftp::internaluserclientdir($internaluser) {
> file { "/usr/home/${internaluser}/${name}":
> ensure => 'link',
> target => "/usr/home/ftp/${name}"
> }
> }
>
> define ftp::internaluser() {
> include 'ftp::data'
>
> file { "/usr/home/${name}":
> ensure => 'directory',
> # ...
> }
>
> ftp::internaluserclientdir { ${ftp::data::clientnames}:
> internaluser => ${name}
> }
> }
>
> class ftp::clientdirs {
> include 'ftp::data'
> ftp::internaluser { ${ftp::data::internalusers}: }
> }
>
> Note that that manages the internal user directories themselves (which
> you did not specify), but that's optional. On the other hand, it does
> not manage the actual client directories, though it could be made to
> do.
>
> Now, as to the actual source of the data. If using a Puppet manifest
> is an acceptable embodiment of storing the data in a file, then you
> can just define the needed arrays directly in class "ftp::data". It's
> usually better, however, to pull the data out of your manifests, in
> which case you should be looking at hiera. In that case the variable
> declarations in class "ftp::data" would use hiera to load their array
> values, or else class "ftp::data" could be dropped altogether, and
> your other classes could call hiera directly to get the data.
>
>
> John
>
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