Host file replaced

[Aditya Gupta]

Hello All,
I am using host resources in my puppet class to manage hosts file of the client.

I am facing one issue where if I have already connected client to the puppet server where hosts file have its own entries as well as entries defined by puppet server .

But whenever I replaced my hosts file from some other server then in next puppet run my old entries removed from the hosts file and I can only see entries managed by puppet.

Please help me in this issue.

Thanks,
Aditya

[Craig Dunn]

FYI in future this type of question is probably more suited to puppet-users than puppet-dev.

It sounds like resource purging, meaning that Puppet will purge any resources found that are not under Puppet control.  You don't mention if you use a Forge module to manage hosts, or something home grown - if you're using something like https://forge.puppet.com/ghoneycutt/hosts then you'll need to set (or unset) the "purge_hosts" option.  Otherwise, you might have something like this declared....

resources { 'hosts': purge => true }

Either way, it should be easy enough to change the behaviour but without knowing what module you are using I can't really tell you exactly how.

Craig 

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[Aditya Gupta]

Thanks for the answer.

I am using standard puppet resource type:

https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/types/host.html

and i can not see support of purge parameter in it.

[Rob Nelson]

You're specifically looking for a resource called `resources` with the title `host`, as shown at http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/remove-all-unmanaged-host-entries.html. More info at https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/type.html#resources

Rob Nelson
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