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

[Gary Larizza]

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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[Sean Kelly]

I've tried that as well. It doesn't work.

[Gary Larizza]

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.

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[Sean Kelly]

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!