Puppet users - Mar 2012 - default "notify" directive for files in a directory

Hi,

I know there is a way to have global options using things like:

site.pp:

File {
  owner => "root",
  group => "root",
  mode => 0644,
}

--

Is there a way to have something like:

File[/etc/daemon/config.d/*] {
  notify => Class["daemon::service"],
}

??

I would like to have the same "notify" directive for any file resource
that falls under the path "/etc/daemon/config.d".

The reason why I would like to do it this way is that I have config
files (/etc/daemon/config.d/config_option_1) for said daemon spread
out. For instance, some of them live within modules, others are in the
private fileserver namespace. It would reduce directive clutter if
there was a way to say, "Any file living under /etc/daeomn/config.d"
has a default notify of ''Class["daemon::service"],''.

Thanks for the advice.

Sincerely,

-matt zagrabelny

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Hi Matt,

No, not like that.

You can group all these files under a module for that service and inside the
class for configuring those files create a default.

class blah::service {
  service {''blah'': .....}
}

class blah::files {
  File {
    notify => Service[''blah'']
  }

  file {''/etc/path/file'':
    .....
  }
}

Something like that. I can remember if that is safe (ie, that defaults stay
within the scope of the class). You might want to check to see if the docs
mention anything about it before implementing.

Den

On 24/03/2012, at 3:24, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know there is a way to have global options using things like:
> 
> site.pp:
> 
> File {
>  owner => "root",
>  group => "root",
>  mode => 0644,
> }
> 
> --
> 
> Is there a way to have something like:
> 
> File[/etc/daemon/config.d/*] {
>  notify => Class["daemon::service"],
> }
> 
> ??
> 
> I would like to have the same "notify" directive for any file
resource
> that falls under the path "/etc/daemon/config.d".
> 
> The reason why I would like to do it this way is that I have config
> files (/etc/daemon/config.d/config_option_1) for said daemon spread
> out. For instance, some of them live within modules, others are in the
> private fileserver namespace. It would reduce directive clutter if
> there was a way to say, "Any file living under
/etc/daeomn/config.d"
> has a default notify of
''Class["daemon::service"],''.
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> -matt zagrabelny
> 
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