Thank you for your answer Dave.
This is the intended purpose of having the puppet agent move those folders
every time it is called.
Would it be an easier (more proper) way of doing it?
Thanks,
Mike
On Monday, November 19, 2012 6:22:55 AM UTC-5, David Schmitt wrote:
>
>
> You are passing an array (dir_name) into a single resource. Instead you
> want to create three separate resources:
>
> module_name::move { [ dir1, dir2, dir3 ]: ... }
>
>
> Also, I feel compelled to point out that having verbs or actions as names
> of resources is a big red warning flag, that you're doing something
> outside
> the intended design of puppet. e.g. are you aware that your define will
> try
> to move the directories every time you run the agent with this?
>
>
>
> Best Regards, David
>
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:14:29 -0800 (PST), mickael avedissian
> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use puppet to move some folders from one directory to
> > another
> > in Windows.
> >
> > That being said I have a parameterized define which looks like that:
> >
> > define module_name::move ($dir_name, $arg2){
> >
> > $dir_origin = "c:/${dir_name}"
> > $dir_destination = "c:/tmp/${arg2}"
> >
> > file { $dir_destination:
> > ensure => 'directory',
> > mode => '755',
> > }
> >
> > exec { $backup_folder :
> > command => "cmd.exe /c move $dir_origin $dir_destination",
> > path => 'c:\windows\system32;c:\windows',
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> > and I call the define as follow:
> > module_name::move { 'folder_name':
> > dir_name => ['dir1','dir2','dir3'],
> > arg2 => blah,
> > }
> >
> >
> > when I execute this code, puppet concatenate the value of $dir_name as
> > dir1dir2dir3 instead of running my define 3 separate times.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate getting some help on how I could reach my
> > purpose.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
>
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