Try:
$listenip = "${ipaddress}_${service_listenif}"
- Chad
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Jan Werner<rababerkuc...@tortenboxer.de> wrote:
>
> hi list,
>
> i'd guess the subject could cause some braindamage, i'm sorry for
> that, i did not find a better description for my problem.
>
> here my problem.
> i do have the following list of variables to work with:
>
> $service_listenif = "eth0" ## this is a variable that comes from the
> node definition
> $ipaddress_eth0 = "192.168.0.1" ## comes throught facter
>
> now i do want to set new variable called $listenip containing the ip
> of the interface that has been specified in $service_listenif.
>
> how would you solve that?
> since:
> $listenip = $ipaddress_$service_listenif ## does not work
>
> i've been testing around with generate using something similar to:
> $listenip = generate("/sbin/ifconfig", "$service_listenif | grep inet
> | sed 's/^\s*inet addr://' | sed 's/ Bcast.*//'")
>
> did not work either, at least so far, it seems that generate wouldn't
> let me pass multiple commands as shown above, no matter which
> combination i took.
>
>
> last but not least, if there is no chance of doing that the puppet
> way, i'll write a shell script for that
> accepting $service_listenif as parameter and doing the "logic" inside
> the sheel script.
>
> would like to hear your thoughts.
>
>
> >
>
--
Chad M. Huneycutt
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