Maybe incron is the tool you are after.
On May 6, 5:03 am, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 23:52, John Chris Richards > > <john.chris.richa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I totally agree with you. Hence with the above solution we can have a > > little bit more control over our systems. > > Hey. Sorry for getting into this discussion late: if you really > wanted to trigger a puppet run after a file was modified, I would > probably take the approach of using an external tool to do the > triggering. > > Linux has the inotify system, and *BSD have something similar, which > do real-time event notification on files and directories. You can > either write a small monitor based on those, or find one of the > existing ones (inoticoming, inocron, and at least one more exist in > Linux-ville). > > When they observe a change in the appropriate location they can > trigger the puppet run for you; that gives you the desired behavior, > more or less. You will still have the period between the puppet run > starting and the change being backed out where the system is wrong, of > course. > > Overall, though, I wouldn't recommend the strategy: this is a > technical solution to a social problem – if your users are making > uncontrolled, or bad, changes then you need to bring them into the > fold, not fight with them. The later will just make them more > duplicitous: they will disable your notification tool (or puppet, if > that did the monitoring), then make their changes. > > I would strongly encourage you to either get to the point that they > are not fighting you (and puppet) for control of the system by > bringing them on board to the process (eg: they update puppet, rather > than hack on the machine), or by locking them out. > > Regards, > Daniel > > ...and, yes, they /will/ get very upset with the "locking them out" option. :) > -- > ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer –http://puppetlabs.com > ✉ Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> > ✆ Contact me via gtalk, email, or phone: +1 (877) 575-9775 > ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- 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.
