On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Schulman <
google-groups-and...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> The Type Reference lists 8 read-only type attributes, but I can't find any
> information in the documentation about how to use them. Are they usable,
> and if so how?
>
> Here's my #1 example: when I set the mode on a file resource, I want to
> set a different default mode for a file than for a directory. Files have
> an attribute named type, which the docs say is "a read-only state to check
> the file type". That would seem to be the right thing, so I want to write
> something like
>
>
that doesnt exactly work as you described it. As a feature, if you set up
default mode as 644, puppet assumes that you want 755 on dirs and not 644.
> file { mode => $type ? { file => 0644, directory => 0755 } }
>
> But that isn't right of course, since $type is a facter fact, unrelated to
> the file's type attribute. So is the type attribute available for me to
> use, and if so how?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
>
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