Puppet users - Mar 2010 - client to client problem

Good morning,

Not sure if this is even possible. I have a situation with a server
and 2 clients. I have a file that gets created on 1 client that needs
to be moved to the other client within the 30 minute time frame of
being created. I could use a cron job with rsync, but was wondering if
there might be some way to get the client to see this file and move it
to the other client. Or would it be possible to get the server to see
it and know to move it over to the other client?

Any ideas?

thanks
~J~

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I would probably do this with cron/rsync unless there is a very
pressing need to do it in puppet. However, to achieve this in puppet
you could create a function that checks to see if this file exists,
and transfers it if so. Something like:

define filecheck ($file) {
   file { "$file":
       owner => root, group => root, mode => 755,
       ensure => file,
   }
   exec { "filecheck-$name":
       command => "rsync $file user@client2:/remote/file/path/",
       require => [File["$name"]],
   }
}

You would add that to the node definition for client 1. This assumes
you have key-based authentication set up between your clients. Btw, I
am not a puppet expert and quickly wrote this during my lunch-break
without testing, so it might not work as expected.

Cheers,

Mike


On Mar 30, 12:27 pm, Jewels <islandje...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Not sure if this is even possible. I have a situation with a server
> and 2 clients. I have a file that gets created on 1 client that needs
> to be moved to the other client within the 30 minute time frame of
> being created. I could use a cron job with rsync, but was wondering if
> there might be some way to get the client to see this file and move it
> to the other client. Or would it be possible to get the server to see
> it and know to move it over to the other client?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> ~J~
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