Puppet and systemctl trouble

Question

I have some trouble with puppet and systemctl. I used to load several parameters for a 'service' but it's not working anymore on centos7.

This is my error:

Error: Could not enable [ntpd ntpdate]: 
Error: /Stage[main]/Ntp::Service/Service[[ntpd ntpdate]]/enable: change from false to true failed: Could not enable [ntpd ntpdate]:

And this is my code :

Hiera :

ntp::service::ntp_services: 
  - "ntpd"
  - "ntpdate"

Service.pp :

class ntp::service ($ntp_services) {
    service {"$ntp_services":
        hasrestart  => false,
        hasstatus   => true,
        ensure      => running,
        enable      => true,
    }
}

It's working very well on centos 6 and it used to work on centos 7.

It works if I define the parameter like that :

ntp::service::ntp_services: "ntpd"

But I will have to define 1 parameter for 1 service...

Thanks

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '16 at 08:15

The quotes on this line are likely to be causing the problem:

service {"$ntp_services":

Using "" containing a variable will create a string with the variable expanded inside it. This is probably why Puppet is reporting a single service with the name [ntpd ntpdate] (i.e. an array) rather than two different services.

Change it to:

service { $ntp_services:

and this should pass the original array, generating one resource per item.

Puppet and systemctl trouble

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