Puppet users - Feb 2008 - purging unmanaged cron

Should this work?

      # --- remove any cronjobs that are not managed by puppet.
      resources { "cron": purge => true }

I get the following error.

    Resources[cron]: Failed to generate additional resources: You must
    specify a title for objects of type Puppet::Type::Cron

Ben

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Ben <abnormaliti@clivepeeters.com.au>
wrote:
> Should this work?
>
>       # --- remove any cronjobs that are not managed by puppet.
>       resources { "cron": purge => true }
>
>  I get the following error.
>
>     Resources[cron]: Failed to generate additional resources: You must
>     specify a title for objects of type Puppet::Type::Cron
I would be very careful about using the ''resources'' resource
type to
purge. It seems to be pretty greedy and will try to purge a great many
resources that one may not to remove. That said, what version are you
using? I have 0.24.1 on my local system and I did a test:

class delres {
    resources { "file": noop  => true, purge => true, }
    resources { "cron": noop => true, purge => true, }
}

include delres

$ puppet test.pp
notice: /File[/var]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/sys]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/export]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/opt]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/usr]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/etc]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/tmp]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/sbin]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/mnt]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/console.txt]/ensure: is file, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/proc]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/media]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/initrd]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/lib]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/dev]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/srv]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/lost+found]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/home]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/initrd.img]/ensure: is link, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/vmlinuz]/ensure: is link, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/boot]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/bin]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/cdrom]/ensure: is link, should be absent (noop)
notice: /File[/root]/ensure: is directory, should be absent (noop)

Note that it didn''t find any cron resources for purging, but the
''file'' resource purge seems to be everything under / (this is
on an
Ubuntu system).

Luke, As an aside, is there any way to specify the title of a resource
type for purging? So that puppet will search the manifest for say,
Cron["some cronjob"] and basically set ensure => absent? Should I
file
a bug report as a feature request for this?

On Feb 20, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> Luke, As an aside, is there any way to specify the title of a resource
> type for purging? So that puppet will search the manifest for say,
> Cron["some cronjob"] and basically set ensure => absent?
Should I file
> a bug report as a feature request for this?

Yes:

cron { myresource: ensure => absent }

That is, individual resources can be easily removed the normal way;  
the ''resources'' type is specifically for removing all
resources you
don''t know about.

I think you''re just slightly misunderstanding the purpose of the  
resource type.

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convinced that I''m right. -- Mojo Nixon
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