Thanks Peter :)  that fixed the issue.  Appreciate your help with this.

-J

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 10:50:08 PM UTC-7, Peter Bukowinski wrote:
>
> Jagga,
>
> It’s a simple error. You need to remove the square brackets from around 
> your conditional test. Puppet is evaluating it as an array, and since 
> puppet treats all non-boolean values (other than undef) as true, you will 
> never get to the else block.
>
> —
> Peter
>
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 10:13 PM, Jagga Soorma <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am using foreman and puppet to provision/manage systems.  I have a 
> simple motd module that I was using for all my systems but now have a need 
> to setup a different motd for a specific hostgroup/type of systems.  So, I 
> though I would use the hostgroup hiera setup from foreman/puppet to decide 
> which motd to use.  I wrote something quickly to test but have unexpected 
> results and was hoping someone here can help me make sense of this:
>
> --
> my hostgroup for system 1 is CSOE73_Prod/hpc/misc and for system 2 is 
> CSOE73_Prod/hpc/compute.  
> So I decided to write the code this way:
>
> if [$hostgroup == 'CSOE73_Prod/hpc/misc'] {
>   file { "/etc/motd":
>     ensure => file,
>     content => template('clientos/motd.erb')
>      }
> } 
> else {
>   file { "/etc/motd":
>     ensure => file,
>     source => 'puppet:///modules/clientos/etc/motd',
>     mode => 644,
>     owner => 'root',
>     group => 'root',
>     }
> }
> --
>
> However, for both systems the motd.erb template is being applied.  
> However, my expectation was that for system 2 it would just use the 
> files/etc/motd file.  Is it maybe the backslash in CSOE73_Prod/hpc/misc 
> that might be throwing it off?  Am I going about this totally the wrong 
> way?  
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> -J
>
>
>

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