Another though: Can I do something like if $(return value of an Exec resource)==0 { } else {}
I.e. I want to run an shell command first, and do something depend on the output of the command? Thanks -Yushu +-------------------------------------------------+ | Yushu Yao | Ph:1-510-486-4690 | | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | Mailstop 50B-6222 | 1 Cyclotron Road | Berkeley CA 94720-8147 - USA +-------------------------------------------------+ On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Yushu Yao <y...@lbl.gov> wrote: > Thanks, > > Another question, when are the facts loaded? In the beginning of the > puppetd run? > > -Yushu > > +-------------------------------------------------+ > | Yushu Yao > | Ph:1-510-486-4690 > | > | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab > | Mailstop 50B-6222 > | 1 Cyclotron Road > | Berkeley CA 94720-8147 - USA > +-------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Eric Sorenson <eric.soren...@me.com>wrote: > >> >> On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Yushu Yao wrote: >> >> I am trying to implement some function tests. E.g. in my catalog for node >> B there is LDAP client, however, I would like to do a test to see if the >> LDAP server is already up and running. And decide if I want to apply the >> LDAP Client or not. (This is a test on remote resource, I might also need to >> test a resource local to the client, e.g. existence of a file, a service is >> running, etc). >> >> Maybe I can use custom facter for this? >> >> >> You could do that, but a more puppet-y way to think about this is to >> decide what hosts ought to be servers and use puppet to start the service >> there. Puppet thinks you should be the boss of your machines. >> >> >> - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://twitter.com/ahpook >> - >> >> -- >> 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.