Puppet users - Nov 2008 - way to create a parent directory if it doesn't exist?

Is there any way to create a parent directory for a file if it doesn''t
exist?

Trying this:

file { "/etc/crontabs/$title.crontab":
   source => "puppet:///crontabs/$title.crontab",
   ensure => present,
   owner => $user,
   recurse => true
}

but it''s failing because /etc/crontabs doesn''t exist.

Thanks :)

Tim

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Hi
> Is there any way to create a parent directory for a file if it
doesn''t
> exist?
> 
> Trying this:
> 
> file { "/etc/crontabs/$title.crontab":
>    source => "puppet:///crontabs/$title.crontab",
>    ensure => present,
>    owner => $user,
>    recurse => true
> }
> 
> but it''s failing because /etc/crontabs doesn''t exist.
you have to manage the parent directory as well, as it is something you
like to manage with puppet!

so:

file{''/etc/crontabs'':
    ensure => directory,
}

puppet will automagically precede this file definition the one above.

greets pete.


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On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Peter Meier wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>> Is there any way to create a parent directory for a file if it  
>> doesn''t
>> exist?
>>
>> Trying this:
>>
>> file { "/etc/crontabs/$title.crontab":
>>   source => "puppet:///crontabs/$title.crontab",
>>   ensure => present,
>>   owner => $user,
>>   recurse => true
>> }
>>
>> but it''s failing because /etc/crontabs doesn''t exist.
>
> you have to manage the parent directory as well, as it is something  
> you
> like to manage with puppet!
>
> so:
>
> file{''/etc/crontabs'':
>    ensure => directory,
> }
>
> puppet will automagically precede this file definition the one above.
>
> greets pete.
Excellent!  Thanks.

I went to update the wiki page (the intruding parenthetical comment  
distracted me from seeing the 3rd and 4th value for file''s ensure).   
After my updated, I noticed that page is auto-generated.  Patch to  
follow :)

Tim

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