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| author | Paul Berry <paul@puppetlabs.com> | 2011-02-01 16:47:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Berry <paul@puppetlabs.com> | 2011-02-01 16:47:10 -0800 |
| commit | 9d452353f887fcd3c916db970eda4a67971eb4f3 (patch) | |
| tree | d33e455f9f32b8cc36e8118875268f170f80efd0 /lib/puppet/parser/functions | |
| parent | bc6a4ef9a15db4a1f01e3fe4770789e48b827608 (diff) | |
| parent | a732a15a0fd43ce983474cae4c298a9bbd86329f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'tickets/2.6.x/5564' into 2.6.next
* tickets/2.6.x/5564:
Fixed #5564 - Added some more fqdn_rand documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/puppet/parser/functions')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/puppet/parser/functions/fqdn_rand.rb | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/fqdn_rand.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/fqdn_rand.rb index 3e7018ac4..52946f2c1 100644 --- a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/fqdn_rand.rb +++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/fqdn_rand.rb @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ Puppet::Parser::Functions::newfunction(:fqdn_rand, :type => :rvalue, :doc => - "Generates random numbers based on the node's fqdn. The first argument - sets the range. Additional (optional) arguments may be used to further - distinguish the seed.") do |args| + "Generates random numbers based on the node's fqdn. Generated random values + will be a range from 0 up to and excluding n, where n is the first parameter. + The second argument specifies a number to add to the seed and is optional, for example: + + $random_number = fqdn_rand(30) + $random_number_seed = fqdn_rand(30,30)") do |args| require 'md5' max = args.shift srand MD5.new([lookupvar('fqdn'),args].join(':')).to_s.hex |