Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Can Puppet detect if a user has changed a *.conf file and not do anything to that *.conf file?

2012-06-15 Thread PorkCharSui
Wow... thanks all, Very nice to see there such an active community! You've all given me some great things to work with and ponder about. But the define seems exactly what we need here Brian, although environments have the nice advantage of being registered. Well... I know I'll be experimenting

[Puppet Users] Re: Can Puppet detect if a user has changed a *.conf file and not do anything to that *.conf file?

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Fagerlund
On Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:00:21 AM UTC-7, PorkCharSui wrote: ... can Puppet detect if a user has changed a *.conf file him(her)self and NOT do anything to that *.conf file? Nope! Puppet has no good way to tell the difference between: - A user using sudo to deliberately change a

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Can Puppet detect if a user has changed a *.conf file and not do anything to that *.conf file?

2012-06-14 Thread Brian Gallew
I had exactly this situation: I wanted to manage application configuration, but developers wanted to be able to alter the configs as necessary, yet still revert to the real config when they wanted. It's a snap with a define{}: pre # We would like to both distribute configuration files as well as