Puppet exec based "host if statement": Sometimes you want to run an action based on whether a command executes or not. Thats a 'fact' right? - but facts only execute every puppet run so if you want to do something like check that a port is open somewhere you would have to wait 30 minutes after configuring a fact with the destination before you c…

exec_chain.pp

exec { "/bin/true": 
	before => Exec['tada'],
}

exec { "tada":
 	command => "/bin/touch /tada",
}


~> exec { "next":
  	refreshonly => true,
	command => "/bin/touch /boom",
}