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) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.