Puppet file link doesn’t create target under Windows

puppet

file {'VaultUsersLink':
      path => "C:/VaultWorkspace/VaultUsers.lnk",
      require => File['VaultWorkspace'],
      ensure => link,
      target => "C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/facter/facts.d/inventorusers.txt",
      owner => 'SYSTEM',
      group => 'Users',
      mode => 0776,
      }

Seems like it should make a shortcut, and it does make a 0 byte file named VaultUsers.lnk, but doesn't fill in the target. Am I missing something?

Best Answer

A link is not a Windows shortcut. A link is symbolic link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link. Does the file inventorusers.txt also have zero bytes?

link will make sure the file is a symlink, and requires that you also set the target attribute. Symlinks are supported on all Posix systems and on Windows Vista / 2008 and higher. On Windows, managing symlinks requires puppet agent’s user account to have the “Create Symbolic Links” privilege; this can be configured in the “User Rights Assignment” section in the Windows policy editor. By default, puppet agent runs as the Administrator account, which does have this privilege.

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Require file for mount and also update the file after mount

In puppet 3+ you can modify an existing resource like so:

See the documentation here for more details

file { $eos_mount :
  ensure  => 'directory',
  mode    => '1777',
  owner   => 'root',
  group   => 'root',
}

mount { $eos_mount :
  ensure  => 'mounted',
  device  => $lv_device,
  fstype  => $fstype,
  options => 'defaults,noatime,nodiratime',
  require => File[$eos_mount],
  notify  => File['post_eos'],
}

File[$eos_mount] {
  path    => $eos_mount,
  ensure  => 'directory',
  mode    => '1777',
  owner   => 'root',
  group   => 'root',
}

Invalid parameter for defined type

You are nowhere defining the actual sysctl class, it seems.

In your modules/sysctl/manifests/init.pp you should have at least a class sysctl set, and then included your defined type (which should be named differently form the class itself), like so:

class sysctl {
  # this is empty
}

define sysctl::set ( $value = undef, $ensure = undef ) {
  ...
}

This is why you get an error when trying to include sysctl, because there is no such class. Fix modules/sysctl/manifests/init.pp and then in /etc/puppet/modules/template/manifests/api.pp add include sysctl at the top. Then it should work.

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Related Solutions

Require file for mount and also update the file after mount

Invalid parameter for defined type

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