my first answer to this was to look at the file modification time. For whatever reason they wanted to know if I could add a line saying something on the order of "Last Modified By Puppet: <date>".
I'm just going to tell them they're nuts. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:59 PM Dan White <d_e_wh...@icloud.com> wrote: > If Puppet manages the file, then the file's mod time is the time in > question. Why do they want it IN the file ? > > "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." > > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > On May 6, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I use templates to manage a slew of configuration files. One request > from my end user community (Operations folks) was to have Puppet mark the > last time a file was modified by Puppet as a comment in the file. > > Seems like a Heisenburg problem to me. Just marking a time date inside > a template would make a change it would seem to me. > > > Or am I wrong? > > Comments please. > > -- > 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/CAArvnv25Wdh9wVCArYMb-C_EQpkCifGRx%3D0w-0tB6WtrO7WAhQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv25Wdh9wVCArYMb-C_EQpkCifGRx%3D0w-0tB6WtrO7WAhQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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/29C0D452-EDAA-42FC-A885-EC0D4DECC177%40icloud.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/29C0D452-EDAA-42FC-A885-EC0D4DECC177%40icloud.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAArvnv2M%2BPRH0CiU%2BGuaAssbPVE5PWWKLrSdHsazELEJpsoznA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
