[Puppet Users] Re: Array use as loop-type construct?

2013-07-29 Thread jcbollinger
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:32:43 PM UTC-5, Bret Wortman wrote: I'm trying to use a puppet manifest to set up a series of backup jobs on servers which are each running a variety of mysql databases. My manifest currently looks something like this, which almost works: class backups () {

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Array use as loop-type construct?

2013-07-29 Thread Bret Wortman
Oh. I've never really grokked the defined type stuff. I can see now I need to dig in and make sense of it. Thanks, John! * * *Bret Wortman* http://damascusgrp.com/ http://damascusgrp.com/ http://bretwortman.com/ http://about.me/wortmanbret On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:19 PM, jcbollinger

[Puppet Users] Re: Array use as loop-type construct?

2013-07-24 Thread Bret Wortman
For completeness, I solved this myself by using a template instead of trying to do this all within a manifest: #!/bin/sh % databases.each do |db| -% %= mysqldump --user admin #{db} | gzip mysql-#{db}-`date +%Y%m%d`.gz % % end -% % remote_dest.each do |rd| -% %= rsync -arzv #{bkp_dest} #{rd} %