Custom fact for linux service

[Dennis Labkovich]

Hello,

Trying to create a custom fact that will be created if there is existing Linux service.

I am using check for the file existence and it works. See below.

But it looks like a better way would be using Puppet resource "service".

If someone has idea on more elegant implementation, please, advise.

Facter.add(:service_test) do

        confine :osfamily => "RedHat"

        setcode do

                if File.exist? '/etc/init.d/service_test'

                'service_test'

                end

        end

end

[Bill Sirinek]

I'm not sure you need a custom fact for this. Can you just check to see if, for example, Service['autofs']  or Service['autofs.service'] are defined?   

Bill

[Dirk Heinrichs]

From: puppet...@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Sirinek

> I'm not sure you need a custom fact for this. Can you just check to see if,
> for example, Service['autofs']  or Service['autofs.service'] are defined?

Don't think so. Service is for *controlling* existing services, so using the fact seems ok to me in case the service
file doesn't come as part of a package, in which case one could simply assume that if that package is installed,
the service must also be there:

package { 'mypkg':
...
}

service { 'myservice':
...
require => Package['mypkg'],
}

OTOH, if it is a custom service, one could as well manage the service file with Puppet, so that you can be sure it
exists when you want to manage it, like

file { '/etc/init.d/myservice':
...
}

service { 'myservice':
...
require => File['/etc/init.d/myservice'],
}

HTH...

Dirk