Puppet users - Feb 2009 - mailalias ... not doing anything???

G''day

my module''s init.pp:

class mailaliases
{
        if ($skip_mailaliases != "true")
        {
                mailalias
                { "root":
#                        ensure => absent,
                        ensure => present,
                        target => "/etc/aliases",
                        recipient => "linuxroot+
$hostname@example.org",
                        notify => Exec["newaliases"],
                }
        }
}

does nothing, my client continues to look like :
[root@puppetslave lenses]# grep root: /etc/aliases
#root:          marc

what am i missing? from the recipes i''ve looked at (and the one post
on here which i just completely failed to understand) i''m not
gathering what the magic incantation is that''s lacking.

cheers
chakkerz

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:14:57PM -0800, chakkerz
wrote:
> 
> G''day
> 
> my module''s init.pp:
> 
> class mailaliases
> {
>         if ($skip_mailaliases != "true")
>         {
>                 mailalias
>                 { "root":
> #                        ensure => absent,
>                         ensure => present,
>                         target => "/etc/aliases",
>                         recipient => "linuxroot+
> $hostname@example.org",
>                         notify => Exec["newaliases"],
>                 }
>         }
> }
> 
> does nothing, my client continues to look like :
> [root@puppetslave lenses]# grep root: /etc/aliases
> #root:          marc
You need to specify a name explicitely, I think:

    mailalias {
        "www-data phone home":
            ensure => present,
            name => "www-data",
            recipient => "rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org";
    }

-Robin

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On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:14 PM, chakkerz wrote:
>
> G''day
>
> my module''s init.pp:
>
> class mailaliases
> {
>        if ($skip_mailaliases != "true")
>        {
>                mailalias
>                { "root":
> #                        ensure => absent,
>                        ensure => present,
>                        target => "/etc/aliases",
>                        recipient => "linuxroot+
> $hostname@example.org",
>                        notify => Exec["newaliases"],
>                }
>        }
> }
>
> does nothing, my client continues to look like :
> [root@puppetslave lenses]# grep root: /etc/aliases
> #root:          marc
>
> what am i missing? from the recipes i''ve looked at (and the one
post
> on here which i just completely failed to understand) i''m not
> gathering what the magic incantation is that''s lacking.
That looks like it should work.  When you run with debugging, does it  
talk about rewriting the file?

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yeah ...

"ensure => present" helped, i must have misunderstood the doco...
Also, the name does not need to be there

Thanks for the help

chakkerz

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