Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to check if a package exists

2011-05-01 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:21 -0700, Sans r.santanu@gmail.com wrote: On May 1, 4:59 am, Matthew Black mjbl...@gmail.com wrote: You can put a requires in the file resource require = Package[packagename] then it will install the package first then put in the symlink. That not what I

Re: [Puppet Users] Adding already defined users to a group when its created

2011-05-01 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:52 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan pup...@rakhesh.net wrote: Hi, I'm new to Puppet. Started using it about a week ago and absolutely loving it! I'm trying to do something which I am not sure if possible or whether I am even approaching it the right way. What I want to

[Puppet Users] Re: How to check if a package exists

2011-05-01 Thread Sans
Hi Steven and vagn, I almost forgot about ldconfig, I had a look now and ldconfig doesn't appear to be working in this particular case. It's conventional for the so_name to be the name+major version of the library (although, not universally done), so ldconfig will create a link like foo.so.1 -

[Puppet Users] Re: How to check if a package exists

2011-05-01 Thread Sans
Thanks Rakhesh, looking into it. Cheers!! On May 1, 8:14 am, Rakhesh Sasidharan pup...@rakhesh.net wrote: In that case my suggestion of yesterday should do the trick - Have a Exec resource with a command to link the files above, but which runs only if the file does not already exist.

Re: [Puppet Users] Adding already defined users to a group when its created

2011-05-01 Thread Denmat
Hi, Sorry, just so I'm clear. You want create a user and a user group, and then add that user to an sshuser group? Can you create the user with all those groups by default? I don't see why it has to be so complicated unless you have something really specific you're trying to do. If you

Re: [Puppet Users] Adding already defined users to a group when its created

2011-05-01 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, Sorry, just so I'm clear. You want create a user and a user group, and then add that user to an sshuser group? Yes. I want the user and users group to be always created. And the user added to the sshusers group only when the sshusers group exists (which happens when Puppet installs the

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to check if a package exists

2011-05-01 Thread Markus Falb
On 1.5.2011 10:15, Sans wrote: Hi Steven and vagn, I almost forgot about ldconfig, I had a look now and ldconfig doesn't appear to be working in this particular case. It's conventional for the so_name to be the name+major version of the library (although, not universally done), so ldconfig

Re: [Puppet Users] Definitive documentation for define?

2011-05-01 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 30-Apr-11, at 5:34 PM, Denmat wrote: [snip] I guess you would look here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_guide.html#resource-collections Thank you! I am both grateful and mortified - not sure how I missed that. -Taj. -- You received this message because you are subscribed