[Puppet Users] delete home directory rescurively

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:28 AM, bluethundr wrote:
Is there a way using puppet to delete the home directories recursively of
employees who have left the company?

So far I've tried:

file { "/export/home/user":
name => "$home_dir/user",
ensure => 'absent'
}

I also tried



file{'export/home/user':
name => "$home_dir/user",
purge => true,
recurse => true,
force => true,
backup => false,
}

But neither worked. Is there a way to do this with puppet currently? All I
could find in the googlesphere was how to create directories (and keep them
clean) with puppet but not how to destroy them. Perhaps this would be TOO
destructive a power for puppet to wield?

Thanks
Tim

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On Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:28:44 AM UTC-6, bluethundr wrote:
Is there a way using puppet to delete the home directories recursively of
employees who have left the company?

So far I've tried:

file { "/export/home/user":
name => "$home_dir/user",
ensure => 'absent'
}

I also tried



file{'export/home/user':
name => "$home_dir/user",
purge => true,
recurse => true,
force => true,
backup => false,
}

But neither worked. Is there a way to do this with puppet currently?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:19 PM, jcbollinger wrote:


If you don't want to or can't do this via User resources, then it ought to
work to add "ensure => absent" in your second version.

Alternatively, you can always resort to

exec { "Remove ${user}'s Home":
command => "/bin/rm -rf ${home_dir}/${user}",
onlyif => "/usr/bin/test -e ${home_dir}/${user}"
}


John


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