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Vagnerr
Asked: 2015-11-06 08:20:55 +0800 CST

Is it possible to get puppet to combine recursive and non-recursive changes to a given directory

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I am using puppet 3.8.4 on debian. I want to recursively set the owner and group on a set directory, but only set permissions on the directory itself ie. I don't want to chmod anything in the dir only chown/chgrp it.

I have tried the following...

file {[
    "/foo/bar" ,
  ] :
  ensure  => directory,
  owner   => root,
  group   => bar,
  recurse => true,
  require       => [
    User[root],
    Group[bar],
  ],
}
file {[
    "/foo/bar" ,
  ] :
  ensure  => directory,
  mode    => 0640,           # +x automatically added to directories
  recurse => false,
}

But of course puppet then complains of a Duplicate declaration: File[/foo/bar] if you do that.

Is there a way in puppet to do this without having to do the top level directory and then all the files and folders under it explicitly?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just to put it as an answer also: you can't.

    The namevar parameter is path, so you can't have 2 file resources with the same path.

    Check the documentation about file resource.

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  2. Not tested, but this should work:

    For the second resource, just name it differently and set an explicit path: 

    file {"/foo/bar_root":
  path    => "/foo/bar",
  ensure  => directory,
  mode    => 0640,           # +x automatically added to directories
  recurse => false,
}
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