Re: [Puppet Users] Unable to replace a symlink with regular file

Sean Kelly
2013-01-21T22:55:07Z

That worked, thanks! I didn''t realize "file" was even a valid
setting for
ensure.

notice:
/Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]/ensure:
defined content as ''{md5}6b3491d534f04c4eea426b9cf83e637d''
info: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]:
Scheduling refresh of Service[zabbix_agentd]
notice: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/Service[zabbix_agentd]: Triggered
''refresh''
from 1 events
notice: Finished catalog run in 5.32 seconds

Again, thanks!

On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:11:18 PM UTC-6, Gary Larizza
wrote:
>
> Have you tried explicitly setting the ensure value - a la "ensure
=> file"
> - on the files that might exist as symlinks?  I tested this out locally and
> was able to get Puppet to overwrite a symlink with a file declaration.
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> I''ve tried that as well. It doesn''t work.
>
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:34:00 PM UTC-6, Gary Larizza wrote:
>
>  You should be able to add  "force => true" and get this to
work for you
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> I am running Puppet 2.7.x (x varies from 14 to 20 on different machines).
>  I am trying to use Puppet to deploy a new Zabbix agent configuration file.
> On all machines where the file wasn''t a symlink, the deployment
worked.
> However, every machine where it is a link, Puppet refuses to replace teh
> link with a regular file or do anything with it.
>
> I''ve read the type reference, and I see nothing specific about
forcing
> symlink replacement. I''ve looked at the source, and it seems like
> remove_existing should be unlinking teh symlink ahead of my new file. But,
> it isn''t happening. Any suggestions on hwo to do this?
>
> File {
>         backup => main,
>         owner => "root",
>         group => $operatingsystem ? {
>                 freebsd => "wheel",
>                 default => "root",
>         },
>         mode => 644,
>         ensure => present,
> }
>
> class zabbix {
> file {
> ''/usr/local/etc/zabbix'':
> ensure => ''directory'';
> ''/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf'':
> content => template("zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.erb"),
> }
> ...
>
> root@victor:~# ls -ld /usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  64 Dec  9  2011
> /usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf ->
> /usr/local/flightaware/monitor-scripts/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
>
> root@victor:~# puppet agent --test --debug --color=no | grep
> zabbix_agentd.conf 2>&1
> debug: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/Service[zabbix_agentd]/subscribe: subscribes to
> File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]
> debug: /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]:
> Autorequiring File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix]
> debug:
> /Stage[main]/Zabbix/File[/usr/local/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf]/mode:
> Not managing symlink mode
>
> Thanks!
>
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