Hi Nan First of all thanks for your answer
> Are you trying to trigger a puppet run when a particular file changes? Yes, this is what I exactly want to do. For example, if a user changes /etc/hosts file (via vim for instance), it will be corrupted until the next run. What if I don't want to wait until the next run? Thanks again. 2011/4/7 Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, John Chris Richards > <john.chris.richa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Firstly, I am new in configuration management and all I know about > > watching files is that client checks a file's check sum every t hour > > and if a change has occurred then it gets the file from the server. > > > > I wonder that if a user changes a file, does the puppet client wait > > end of the time (t) or is there way to say client if a change occurs > > in a specific file then make an immediate pull? I mean, I don't want > > to wait until the time is up. Is there a way to make this in puppet? > > Puppet agent runs periodically to enforce the catalog, it can replace > the file if it detects any changes, but it doesn't monitor the file to > trigger runs. I suppose you can run puppet continuously (not > recommended), but perhaps if you give some insight on what you are > trying to accomplish would give us a better idea how to achieve it > with puppet. Are you trying to trigger a puppet run when a particular > file changes? Are you trying to monitor several files? > > Thanks, > > Nan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
