I've tried that as well. It doesn't work.
On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:34:00 PM UTC-6, Gary Larizza wrote:
>
> You should be able to add "force => true" and get this to work for you
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> I am running Puppet 2.7.x (x varies from 14 to 20 on different machines).
> I am trying to use Puppet to deploy a new Zabbix agent configuration file.
> On all machines where the file wasn't a symlink, the deployment worked.
> However, every machine where it is a link, Puppet refuses to replace teh
> link with a regular file or do anything with it.
>
> I've read the type reference, and I see nothing specific about forcing
> symlink replacement. I've looked at the source, and it seems like
> remove_existing should be unlinking teh symlink ahead of my new file. But,
> it isn't happening. Any suggestions on hwo to do this?
>
> File {
> backup => main,
> owner => "root",
> group => $operatingsystem ? {
> freebsd => "wheel",
> default => "root",
> },
> mode => 644,
> ensure => present,
> }
>
> class zabbix {
> file {
> '/usr/local/etc/zabbix':
> ensure => 'directory';
> '/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf':
> content => template("zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.erb"),
> }
> ...
>
> root@victor:~# ls -ld /usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 64 Dec 9 2011
> /usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf ->
> /usr/local/flightaware/monitor-scripts/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
>
> root@victor:~# puppet agent --test --debug --color=no | grep
> zabbix_agentd.conf 2>&1
> debug: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/Service[zabbix_agentd]/subscribe: subscribes to
> File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]
> debug: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]:
> Autorequiring File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix]
> debug:
> /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]/mode:
> Not managing symlink mode
>
> Thanks!
>
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