[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#524812: Bug#524812: exec type, creates directive does not create

[Nigel Kersten]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Jayen Ashar <jayen at science.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> thank you for the clarification.  then i this bug is a documentation
> ambiguity.  i thought the doc was saying puppet creates this file, and so it
> would be useful if you wanted to execute something exactly once on every
> machine in your puppet pool.

The reductivelabs wiki is open to anyone to edit who registers with an
account. If you have a clarification to make Jayen, I'm sure the rest
of the community would appreciate it?



>
> Tim Stoop wrote:
>>
>> I'm not a maintainer, but thought I'd help here anyway:
>>
>> Op 20-apr-2009, om 6:26 heeft Jayen Ashar het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>  exec {
>>>    "mail jayen at science.unsw.edu.au -s \"kB available on /: `df / | tail
>>> -n 1 | sed -r 's/ +/    /g' | cut -f4` - `hostname`\"":
>>>      path => ["/bin", "/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"],
>>>      creates => "/var/tmp/partition_usage_20090420";
>>>  }
>>>
>>> does not create /var/tmp/partition_usage_20090420 as advertised and
>>> executes the command every time puppet runs
>>
>> Correct, like the manual says: "A file that *this*command* creates."[0]
>> (emphasis added by me). You'll need to make sure that the command you
>> execute creates the file. For example by adding "&& touch
>> /var/tmp/partition_usage_20090420" at the end of the command.
>>
>> [0] http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#creates
>>
>> --Kind regards,
>> Met vriendelijke groet,
>>
>> Tim Stoop
>>
>
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