Re: [Debian-NYC] Fwd: Puppet presentation Wednesday Nov 18th.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian@onerussian.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Brian Gupta wrote:
>> The one thing you may be addicted to with cfengine2 is the ability to
>> "edit" config files. Naively puppet can't do this and relies either on
>> OS tools, (e.g. useradd), pushing out files, and pushing out
>> templates. That said there is a third party add-on that gives you this
>> ability, but it really is an antithesis of the "puppet way",
>> http://augeas.net/
>
> Thanks for the reference! I will check it out
>
> Indeed 'file editing' is the critical feature for me which prevented
> considering puppet at some point in the past -- I prefer slight
> tune ups to default configuration as shipped with distribution in
> contrast to full templates.
Sure.. However the ideal method is to use native types
e.g.: - a crontab entry:
cron { "run backup-svn.sh":
command => "/home/svn/backup--svn.sh",
hour => [4,13],
minute => "03",
user => "root",
}
>
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