Since this is an "always run", why not just puppet a similar script into
cron.hourly and lighten puppets involvement?
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Alan Barrett <a...@cequrux.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, DieterVDW wrote:
> > On Mar 12, 11:21 am, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Those files are downloaded and installed using apt, I just want puppet
> > to make sure they are owned by a certain user and group.
> > That's the only thing puppet needs to do.
>
> As a workaround, instead of a recursive file resource like this:
>
> file { "/some/dir":
> ensure => directory,
> recurse => inf,
> owner => "someuser",
> group => "somegroup",
> require => Package["the package that created the files"],
> }
>
> try an exec resorce like this:
>
> exec { "fix permissions in /some/dir":
> command => "chown -R someuser:somegroup /some/dir",
> require => Package["the package that created the files"],
> }
>
> The exec will be much faster, but it will run every time (adding
> a message in the log), even if the files already have the correct
> ownership. To get rid of the unwanted log message at the expense of
> slower execution, add
>
> onlyif => "some command to check whether there's a problem",
>
> The onlyif command could use something involving "find" to print the
> names of bad files, and "test" to see whether find's output was empty.
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>
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