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SamK
Asked: 2011-11-04 03:47:21 +0800 CST

Puppet: ensure a file is empty

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I would like to be sure that the motd file is empty. I would love to do like this:

file { "/etc/motd":
  ensure => empty
}

This obviously does not work.

Is there a simple way to ensure a file is empty instead using the "source" declaration and store an empty file in the file repository?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This ought to work just fine to ensure that the file does exist and contains nothing:

    file { '/etc/motd':
  ensure => present,
  content => '',
}
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