16.37. cdist-type__directory(7)¶
16.37.1. NAME¶
cdist-type__directory - Manage a directory
16.37.2. DESCRIPTION¶
This cdist type allows you to create or remove directories on the target.
16.37.3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶
None.
16.37.4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶
- state
- 'present' or 'absent', defaults to 'present'
- group
- Group to chgrp to.
- mode
- Unix permissions, suitable for chmod.
- owner
- User to chown to.
16.37.5. BOOLEAN PARAMETERS¶
- parents
Whether to create parents as well (mkdir -p behaviour). Warning: all intermediate directory permissions default to whatever mkdir -p does.
Usually this means root:root, 0700.
- recursive
- If supplied the chgrp and chown call will run recursively. This does not influence the behaviour of chmod.
16.37.6. MESSAGES¶
- chgrp <group>
- Changed group membership
- chown <owner>
- Changed owner
- chmod <mode>
- Changed mode
- create
- Empty directory was created
- remove
- Directory exists, but state is absent, directory will be removed by generated code.
- remove non directory
- Something other than a directory with the same name exists and was removed prior to create.
16.37.7. EXAMPLES¶
# A silly example
__directory /tmp/foobar
# Remove a directory
__directory /tmp/foobar --state absent
# Ensure /etc exists correctly
__directory /etc --owner root --group root --mode 0755
# Create nfs service directory, including parents
__directory /home/services/nfs --parents
# Change permissions recursively
__directory /home/services --recursive --owner root --group root
# Setup a temp directory
__directory /local --mode 1777
# Take it all
__directory /home/services/kvm --recursive --parents \
--owner root --group root --mode 0755 --state present
16.37.8. AUTHORS¶
Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>
16.37.9. COPYING¶
Copyright (C) 2011 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.