[chef] Re: Re: cookbook rsyslog does not contain file templates/50-default.conf.erb

[Brian Finney < >]

Gotcha, works much better now.

Thanks
Brian

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:
> Yo,
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> On 30 November 2010 10:57, Brian Finney 
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>  wrote:
>> I'm trying to use the rsyslog cookbook through the opscode platform
>> but it doesn't seem to be downloading all of it's templates.  I'm
>> guessing the server determines what templates to send down by running
>> the recipes,
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> It does not. It is aware of the templates in the directory, though.
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>  however in this case the template directory is in a
>> conditional statement so it seems like it may be getting masked.  If
>> this is the case how can I explicitly tell chef that this template
>> should be transfered even if the conditional may not succeed or how
>> can I make the conditional succeed on the server.
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> Place the template in your 'cookbooks/rsyslog/templates/default/'
> folder, and it will be available to all platforms. I believe that
> particular template conditional stops a non-compatible rsyslog
> template from being installed (on older than Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu
> systems)
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> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Files#Files-FileSpecificity
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> Regards,
>
> AJ
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>> relevant code can be found at
>> https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/rsyslog/recipes/default.rb
>> line 52-60
>>
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