[chef] Re: Re: Appending to an existing file, i.e nginx site


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  • From: Michael Della Bitta < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Appending to an existing file, i.e nginx site
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:29:25 -0400

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:24 PM, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:
> Please don't edit files that already exist. Please never do this.

Is that really a practical edict? What about files like
/etc/sysctl.conf needing to be written to by multiple recipes?

FileEdit works, but it gets a bad rap on this list. Chef's going to
need a canonical and supported way to do this...


Michael Della Bitta

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