Puppet users - Mar 2009 - adding lines to a config file

howdy,

I assign specific applications to machines via a class.   Each
application has its own log files that need to be managed by our
logging system (splunk, for those who are familiar with it).   This
basically entails adding a line to a config file.  How do you do
this?  ie, manage the config file?  If this were apache I could use
the ''Include'' directive and just drop in a file that is
automatically
included in the httpd.conf, but splunk doesn''t offer this option:  all
config has to be in the file.

i could just add each apps log config to a file and have an Exec call
that concats all the files into the config, ie:

app1.conf
app2.conf


exec{"cat app*.conf > loggingserver.config":
...
}

<restart logging server>

where the exec is gets executed whenever a file is added/removed/
updated,  but was wondering if this indeed is the best way to do it.

thanks


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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:57:07AM -0700, jb wrote:
> 
> howdy,
> 
> I assign specific applications to machines via a class.   Each
> application has its own log files that need to be managed by our
> logging system (splunk, for those who are familiar with it).
> This basically entails adding a line to a config file.  
I use the line command from
http://git.black.co.at/?p=module-common;a=summary

Example:

    line { "logcheck: ignore sync":
        file    => "/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local",
        line    => "stuff here",
        ensure  => present,
        require => File["/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local"],
    }

Agueas is better for structured configuration files, though; see
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetAugeas

-Robin

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