debugging your exec's for one. The exec may return something that is functionally correct, but not what was intended.
Granted, I am brand new to puppet within the last month or so. Conceptually, I'm sure that I don't have a very good handle on the "puppet way" of doing things yet so I may not be able to provide a good solid set of use cases for you. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Tim Lank <timl...@timlank.com> wrote: > > It would be great to have it configurable, so that it could be off by > > default for those that don't want it. > > > > I may be in the minority here, but having a surety of exactly what was > > executed and a knowledge of the output would be a good thing to me. > Seems > > that the ability to turn this on would be a very desirable thing. > > I understand wanting to know why an exec failed, but what are some > actual use cases where you care about the stdout of an exec resource > in Puppet? > > > > > > Please provide the patch# you are referring to for the on_failure stderr. > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2359 covers it. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Tim Lank <timl...@timlank.com> wrote: > >> > Thanks. Can you elaborate on the puppet's reports? All I see are > here: > >> > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/report.html > >> > > >> > Is there one that reports on the stdout&stderr of the tasks the client > >> > performs? (and not in YAML) > >> > >> I believe we have a patch that should show the stderr output when an > >> exec task fails, but I'm curious as to why you want the stdout? > >> > >> > > >> > The remote syslog would take some coding to cull together in a > coherent > >> > and > >> > readable manner for each individual client. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Sep 24, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Tim Lank wrote: > >> >> > >> >> puppet-users: > >> >> > >> >> I'm trying to find a way to obtain the stdout (and stderr) output > from > >> >> individual puppet client configuration runs. I'd like a central > >> >> storage of > >> >> this information if possible. > >> >> > >> >> In short, I'd like to know what the client exactly did with the > >> >> configuration that it was sent. Ideally I'd like for this to be in > one > >> >> location so that I can write scripts to report on the results. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks in advance for your assistance. > >> >> > >> >> Why not use puppet's reports or a remote syslog? > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> >> Groups > >> >> "Puppet Users" group. > >> >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > >> >> For more options, visit this group at > >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups > >> > "Puppet Users" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> nigel > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Puppet Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > nigel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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