On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:05:39 AM UTC-5, Andreas Dvorak wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to use the file resource to supply a host specific file. If > it does exist choose it and if not create a file from a template. > I tried this, but then /mnt/motd needs to be on all server. > > $a = file("/mnt/motd/motd-${::hostname}",'/dev/null') > if($a != '') { > file {$config_file: > ensure => 'file', > owner => 'root', > group => 'root', > mode => '0644', > source => "puppet:///motd_files/motd/motd-${::hostname}", > } > } > else { > file { $config_file: > ensure => 'file', > owner => 'root', > group => 'root', > mode => '0644', > content => template($template), > } > } > > No, in that case /mnt/motd/* has to be on the machine that builds the catalog, as that's where all Puppet functions will be evaluated. Since you are using a puppetmaster for that purpose, that's where the files need to be. I'd probably write it like this, though:
$a = file("/mnt/motd/motd-${::hostname}",'/dev/null') file {$config_file: ensure => 'file', owner => 'root', group => 'root', mode => '0644', content => $a ? { '' => template($template), default => $a } } John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/3688cefa-b2f7-4733-94e9-96aad2e56455%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.