On 14/12/10 17:07, psyber wrote:
On 12/14/2010 7:33 AM, Tim Watts wrote:
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Question 2
Related:
In a simple case as per documentation:
class syslog {
file { "/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf":
path => "/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf",
ensure => file,
mode => 644,
owner => root,
group => root,
notify => Service[syslog],
source => "puppet:///files/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf"
}
}
is there no variable for the first instance of
"/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf"
???
Mentioning a string 3 times or more strikes me as unnecessarily
verbose and likely to lead to typos.
Hi, and thanks for the reply...
Yeah your a perl guy,
Yep!
I do the same thing, it's force of habit. The
example doesn't do a great job of highlighting that that string is
actually 3 completely different things so why not use 3 different names?
class syslog {
file { "syslog":
path => "/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf",
ensure => file,
mode => 644,
owner => root,
group => root,
notify => Service[syslog],
source => "puppet:///files/base_syslog.conf"
}
}
OK - I did work out that the "path" is optional if the file block "name"
is the same,
I'm not in agreement with the abbreviated source line though - I like my
files to be in the same basic tree as the target so I can find stuff and
naming is fully deterministic - force of habit but I like that habit(!).
I presume, if I really wanted to, I could implement a new "file" module
with a slightly different name to follow my preferred logic? I like the
puppet "outer skeleton" but I'm not digging the file handling...
Have to learn ruby though...
Cheers
tim
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