Messaging ========= Description ----------- cdist has a simple but powerful way of allowing communication between the initial manifest and types as well as types and types. Whenever execution is passed from cdist to one of the scripts described below, cdist generate 2 new temporary files and exports the environment variables **__messages_in** and **__messages_out** to point to them. Before handing over the control, the content of the global message file is copied into the file referenced by **$__messages_in**. After cdist gained control back, the content of the file referenced by **$__messages_out** is appended to the global message file. This way overwriting any of the two files by accident does not interfere with other types. The order of execution is not defined unless you create dependencies between the different objects (see `cdist manifest `_) and thus you can only react reliably on messages by objects that you depend on. Availability ------------ Messaging is possible between all **local** scripts: - initial manifest - type/manifest - type/gencode-local - type/gencode-remote Examples -------- When you want to emit a message use: .. code-block:: sh echo "something" >> "$__messages_out" When you want to react on a message use: .. code-block:: sh if grep -q "^__your_type/object/id:something" "$__messages_in"; then echo "I do something else" fi Some real life examples: .. code-block:: sh # Reacting on changes from block for keepalive if grep -q "^__block/keepalive-vrrp" "$__messages_in"; then echo /etc/init.d/keepalived restart fi # Reacting on changes of configuration files if grep -q "^__file/etc/one" $__messages_in; then echo 'for init in /etc/init.d/opennebula*; do $init restart; done' fi Restart sshd on changes .. code-block:: sh os="$(cat "$__global/explorer/os")" case "$os" in centos|redhat|suse) restart="/etc/init.d/sshd restart" ;; debian|ubuntu) restart="/etc/init.d/ssh restart" ;; *) cat << eof >&2 Unsupported os $os. If you would like to have this type running on $os, you can either develop the changes and send a pull request or ask for a quote at www.ungleich.ch eof exit 1 ;; esac if grep -q "^__key_value/PermitRootLogin" "$__messages_in"; then echo $restart fi