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Manage the mlocate package for updatedb/locate.
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  • 0.4.0 (latest)
  • 0.3.2
  • 0.3.1
  • 0.2.1
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released Jun 11th 2017
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adamcrews/mlocate — version 0.4.0 Jun 11th 2017

mlocate

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
  3. Setup - The basics of getting started with mlocate
  4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
  6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  7. Development - Guide for contributing to the module
  8. Contributors

Overview

Install and manage the mlocate/updatedb package.

Module Description

Mlocate is a useful tool that does a find of your system and records the files present. It's a bit old, not commonly used, irrelevant on disposable systems, but I like it, so get off my lawn.

Setup

What mlocate affects

  • installs the mlocate package
  • removes the default cron job, and replaces it with one that is splayed via fqdn_rand

Setup Requirements

You need a modern puppetlabs/stdlib.

Beginning with mlocate

Everything can be configured via the default mlocate class.

Usage

Basic usage that will result is a setup very close to a default CentOS configuration

include ::mlocate

Exclude some directories:

class { '::mlocate':
  extra_prunepaths => [ '/exports', '/data' ],
}

Reference

Classes

Public Classes

  • mlocate: Main class, includes other classes.

Private Classes

  • mlocate::params: default parameters.
  • mlocate::install: install and configure the software.
  • mlocate::cron: setup the cron job.

###Parameters

The following parameters are available as options to the default mlocate class.

####package_name

The name of the package to install. Default: mlocate

####package_ensure

Ensure the package is present, latest, or absent. Default: present

####update_command

The name of the updatedb wrapper script. Default: /usr/local/bin/mlocate.cron

####update_on_install

Run an initial update when the package is installed. Default: true

####conf_file

The configuration file for updatedb. Default: /etc/updatedb.conf

####cron_ensure

Ensure the cron jobs is present or absent. Default: present

####cron_schedule

The standard cron time schedule. Default: once a week based on fqdn_rand

####cron_daily_path

The path to cron.daily file installed by mlocate and that is removed

####prune_bind_mounts

Prune out bind mounts or not. Default: yes Refer to the updatedb.conf man page for more detail. On redhat 5 systems defaults to none.

####prunenames

Prune out directories matching this pattern. Default: .git .hg .svn Refer to the updatedb.conf man page for more detail. On redhat 5 systems defaults to none.

####extra_prunenames

Prune out additional directories matching this pattern. Default: none

####prunefs

Prune out these FS types. Default: refer to the params.pp Refer to the updatedb.conf man page for more detail.

####extra_prunefs

Prune out additional directories matching this pattern. Default: none

####prunepaths

Prune out paths matching this pattern. Default: refer to params.pp Refer to the updatedb.conf man page for more detail.

####extra_prunepaths

Prune out additional directories matching this pattern. Default: none

Limitations

This has only been tested on CentOS 6.5, but should work fine on any RHEL based system, versions 4+

Development

Please add spec tests, and submit PR's from a branch.

ToDo

More spec tests are needed.

Misc

With the 0.3.0 release, the cron job times will likely change as an extra seed argument has been added to the fqdn_rand function calls. This is a workaround for https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-5646

Contributors

Contributors can be found on github.