Puppet users - Jul 2010 - Recursively setting owner ?

Alright so if I have something like

file {"xyz":

       ensure=>directory,
       mode=>644
       owner=>"abc",
       group=>"abc",
       recurse=>true,

     }

...then all this does is to set the appropriate file permissions for
the subdirectories & files under xyz, but it doesn''t change the
owner/
group of those subdirs & files. It only changes/sets the owner of the
xyz directory only, not anything under xyz.

So, currently I am resorting to doing an exec for chown -R, but that
doesn''t look like a good solution, maybe I am missing something
fundamental here.

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Arn''t you missing the purge option? Be carefull, if you do something
wrong it could destroy you data. Make a test directory for this.


On 23 Jul, 08:07, alcy <mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Alright so if I have something like
>
> file {"xyz":
>
>        ensure=>directory,
>        mode=>644
>        owner=>"abc",
>        group=>"abc",
>        recurse=>true,
>
>      }
>
> ...then all this does is to set the appropriate file permissions for
> the subdirectories & files under xyz, but it doesn''t change
the owner/
> group of those subdirs & files. It only changes/sets the owner of the
> xyz directory only, not anything under xyz.
>
> So, currently I am resorting to doing an exec for chown -R, but that
> doesn''t look like a good solution, maybe I am missing something
> fundamental here.
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Regarding my initial query, the problem was that the subdirs & files were
also declared as separate resources, and hence I had to explicitly mention
owner & group for each of them individually.

@Tore: Have no clue about the purge option. Did go through the docs, but not
sure if I should set it or not ? If its not much to ask for, could you give
me a scenario to better comprehend the purge option ? Not sure but probably
purge=false is a failsafe option ?

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Tore <tore.lonoy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Arn''t you missing the purge option? Be carefull, if you do
something
> wrong it could destroy you data. Make a test directory for this.
>
>
> On 23 Jul, 08:07, alcy <mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alright so if I have something like
> >
> > file {"xyz":
> >
> >        ensure=>directory,
> >        mode=>644
> >        owner=>"abc",
> >        group=>"abc",
> >        recurse=>true,
> >
> >      }
> >
> > ...then all this does is to set the appropriate file permissions for
> > the subdirectories & files under xyz, but it doesn''t
change the owner/
> > group of those subdirs & files. It only changes/sets the owner of
the
> > xyz directory only, not anything under xyz.
> >
> > So, currently I am resorting to doing an exec for chown -R, but that
> > doesn''t look like a good solution, maybe I am missing
something
> > fundamental here.
>
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