[chef] Re: coding style, abstracting "cron" vs "crond"

[Joshua Buysse < >]

My shorter version follows, which could be optimized further using platform_family instead of platform (at least on recent versions).

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:15 PM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

hiya. i have a lot of WET code when it comes to controlling cron on CentOS vs
Ubuntu. anyone have suggestions on abstracting this, making it DRY?

on CentOS, the service is known as "crond", Ubuntu, "cron". bummer.

thots? thanks!
kallen

# default to cron

cron_service_name = "cron"

if platform?("redhat", "centos")

  cron_service_name = "crond"

elsif platform?("debian", "ubuntu")

  cron_service_name = "cron"

end

template "/etc/cron.d/blah-maint" do

  source "blah-maint-cron.erb"

  mode 0644

  notifies :reload, "service[cron]", :delayed

end

service "cron" do

  service_name cron_service_name

  supports [ :reload, :status ]

  action [ :reload ]

end

--

Joshua Buysse, System Engineer
College of Liberal Arts, Office of Information Technology
University of Minnesota

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