Puppet users - Mar 2007 - can''t get defined function to work

Any help would be much appreciated:

$refcheck = defined(File["/home/$name/.ssh"])
if $refcheck {}
else {
        file { "/home/${name}/.ssh":
          ensure => directory,
          owner => $name,
          group => $name,
          mode => 700
        }
}


puppetd says: err: Syntax error at ''File'' at 
/etc/puppet.testing/manifests/lib/ssh-keygen.pp:22

Best,
Adam Kosmin

On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> Any help would be much appreciated:
>
> $refcheck = defined(File["/home/$name/.ssh"])
> if $refcheck {}
> else {
>         file { "/home/${name}/.ssh":
>           ensure => directory,
>           owner => $name,
>           group => $name,
>           mode => 700
>         }
> }
>
>
> puppetd says: err: Syntax error at ''File'' at
> /etc/puppet.testing/manifests/lib/ssh-keygen.pp:22
It appears that the parser is set up incorrectly.  Resource  
references are valid arguments to statement functions (e.g., realize)  
but not rvalue functions (e.g., defined).

Can you file this as a bug, please?

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