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| author | James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net> | 2010-12-15 23:39:12 +1100 |
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| committer | Paul Berry <paul@puppetlabs.com> | 2011-02-01 16:42:46 -0800 |
| commit | a732a15a0fd43ce983474cae4c298a9bbd86329f (patch) | |
| tree | 6df0a8eb36c57635e8890ba35b5c0ffdb339218b /lib/puppet/parser/functions | |
| parent | af6e08c0a59db951502d0cf8c0ca24f5001e92f1 (diff) | |
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Fixed #5564 - Added some more fqdn_rand documentation
Reviewed-by: Paul Berry <paul@puppetlabs.com>
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 |