I want to execute a shell command/script using puppet only when a file exists in particular path.
For example if a text file test.txt exists in /root path then puppet will execute shell script, otherwise puppet didn't execute any commands
1 Answer
exec {"Comment to your resource":
command => 'your command',
provider => shell,
onlyif => '/usr/bin/test -e /path/to/file/test.txt',
}
onlyif will execute the command in Exec if and only if the command executed(in the onlyif) has return code 0.
3 Comments
John Bollinger
NMDV, but do not encourage poor questions by writing answers.
Atmesh Mishra
@JohnBollinger In that case down-vote the question, flag the question or edit it to make it better. Don't go on down-voting correct answers just because you can.
John Bollinger
As I said, Not My DownVote (on your answer). For what it's worth, I did downvote the question, as is called for for one that shows complete absence of research effort; someone else has upvoted it for no apparent reason. I'm just suggesting a possible reason for the downvote on your answer, regardless of whether it was strictly-speaking appropriate. And you can expect sometimes to collect such DVs if you choose to answer bad questions.
Execresource type confuses you in this regard?