Puppet users - Aug 2009 - mailalias ... re-running newaliases despite no changes being made

Hello there

I''ve got a module that sets the root mail destination, and thereafter
runs newaliases:

class shared-mailaliases
{
        if ($skip_mailaliases != "true")
        {
                mailalias
                { "root":
                        ensure    => present,
                        recipient => $operatingsystem ?
                        {
                                solaris => "sunroot+
$hostname@example.com",
                                default => "linuxroot+
$hostname@example.com"
,
                        },
                        notify    => Exec["$newaliases_cmd"],
                }

                exec
                { "$newaliases_cmd":
                        cwd       => "/",
                }
        }
}

Is there a way of stopping this? it''s one more false positive my
offsider''s intrusion detection system is throwing up. But
realistically, we don''t want this file to change ... so we want to
monitor it.
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Hi
> I''ve got a module that sets the root mail destination, and
thereafter
> runs newaliases:
> 
> class shared-mailaliases
> {
>         if ($skip_mailaliases != "true")
>         {
>                 mailalias
>                 { "root":
>                         ensure    => present,
>                         recipient => $operatingsystem ?
>                         {
>                                 solaris => "sunroot+
> $hostname@example.com",
>                                 default => "linuxroot+
> $hostname@example.com"
> ,
>                         },
>                         notify    => Exec["$newaliases_cmd"],
>                 }
> 
>                 exec
>                 { "$newaliases_cmd":
>                         cwd       => "/",
>                 }
>         }
> }
> 
> Is there a way of stopping this? it''s one more false positive my
> offsider''s intrusion detection system is throwing up. But
> realistically, we don''t want this file to change ... so we want to
> monitor it.

have a look at refreshonly of exec.

cheers pete

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