On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 2:23:52 AM UTC-6, Andy Spiegl wrote:
>
> On 2013-12-17, 16:31, Ben Ford wrote:
>
> > If you override something in a recursive directory, you're
> > overriding everything.
> I see, that makes sense.
>
> > If you add source => 'puppet:///modules/nagios/var_lib_nagios/plugins'
> then
> > I suspect you'll get what you want.
> You are right, that did it. Thanks!
>
> > I should also point out that this is unnecessary, as Puppet will
> > automatically promote read permissions to read & execute permissions
> > for directories.
> No, not exactly as the mode definition is meant for the files in the
> subdirectory. There are executables in "bin" and "plugins".
>
> So, what would be a better way of changing the mode of some files
> within a directory resource with "recurse" activated? Adding "source"
> for all of them seems awkward...
>
>
Sorry, Puppet does not do the kind of resource property merging that you
seem to want. As Ben wrote, when you have an explicit declaration of a
File resource that otherwise would be managed via a recursive directory
resource, the explicit declaration is the only one considered. Consider
that the sources of the /var/lib/nagios/{plugins,bin} directories needn't
actually appear on the masters as subdirectories of the source for
/var/lib/nagios -- expressing the sources explicitly is not awkward, it's
appropriate.
There are a few things you could do to make this more palatable. For
example, you can keep the needed manifest code DRY and clear by using a
variable to specify the sources:
$nagios_source = 'puppet:///modules/nagios/var_lib_nagios'
file { '/var/lib/nagios':
ensure => directory,
source => ${nagios_source},
recurse => true,
mode => '0664',
}
file { '/var/lib/nagios/plugins':
ensure => directory,
source => "${nagios_source}/plugins",
recurse => true,
mode => '0775',
}
file { '/var/lib/nagios/bin':
ensure => directory,
source => "${nagios_source}/bin",
recurse => true,
mode => '0775',
}
Alternatively, packages are sometimes better than recursive File resources
for managing directory trees.
Or you could abandon managing file modes for the whole /var/lib/nagios tree
via File resources, and do it instead via an Exec.
John
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