On Mar 14, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 5:52:53 PM UTC-5, ed209 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Checkout the 'creates' property, it seems like a cleaner way of doing
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/2.6.8/type.html#exec
>>>
>>>
>>> Pardon the newbie question, but does work on or de-reference symlinks?
>>>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You might want to rephrase your question, as it is not obvious, at
>> least not to me.
>>
>> Mohamed.
>
> If the "creates" property of a Exec points to a symlink, what is the
> effect if the target of the symlink is missing?
The exec will not run in this case. The 'creates' attribute looks for something
to exist at the specified path. A symlink, even if broken, is still a file.
These hypotheticals are simple to test out on your own. To test this case on
any puppet client, first create a class:
#test.pp:
class test {
exec { 'touch /opt/test.did.run': creates => '/opt/test.link' }
}
Then create a symlink to a non-existent file:
ln -s /opt/nada /opt/test.link
Finally:
puppet apply test.pp
/opt/test.did.run won't be created.
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Peter M. Bukowinski
Sr. Systems Engineer
Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
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