access files in modules when using puppet instead of puppetd.... leave
off the server name... got it.  thank you.

On Jul 6, 3:40 pm, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:25 PM,TonyR<scuderia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jeff,
>
> > Thanks for the response.
>
> My pleasure.
>
> > puppet:///modules/modulename/path/to/file.txt source URI's.    got
> > it.  is that part of puppet best practices?
>
> Yeah, it's documented at:http://docs.reductivelabs.com/guides/modules.html
>
> The pertinent section is:
>
> Notice that the file source path includes a modules/ component. In
> Puppet version 0.25 and later, you must include this component in
> source paths in order to serve files from modules. Puppet 0.25 will
> still accept source paths without it, but it will warn you with a
> deprecation notice about “Files found in modules without specifying
> ‘modules’ in file path”. In versions 0.24 and earlier, source paths
> should not include the modules/ component.
>
> Note also that you can still access files in modules when using puppet
> instead of puppetd; just leave off the server name and puppetd will
> fill in the server for you (using its configuration server as its file
> server) and puppet will use its module path:
>
> file { "/etc/auto.homes":
>     source => "puppet:///modules/autofs/auto.homes"
>
> }
>
> --
> Jeff McCunehttp://www.puppetlabs.com/

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