Well yes, that's true. But I wanted to use an example variable that I knew all
systems would have.
On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Carl Caum wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone. I'm running in to trouble setting/changing environment
>> variables for exec resources in 2.6.2. If the environment variable exists
>> before I try to run the command, puppet can't seem to change it. For example,
>>
>> exec {"foo":
>> environment => "PATH=/blah",
>> command => "/bin/bash -c \"echo \$PATH\"",
>> logoutput => true;
>> }
>>
>> returns the old PATH value. Now, if I make up a new variable that didn't
>> exist prior to the exec, like MYVAR, it works.
>>
>> exec {"foo2":
>> environment => "MYVAR=MYVAL",
>> command => "/bin/bash -c \"echo \$MYVAR\"",
>> logoutput => true;
>> }
>>
>> returns MYVAL. Here's where it gets weird. I get the same exact behavior
>> if I set the variable in the bash command string.
>>
>> exec {"foo3":
>> command => "/bin/bash -c \"export PATH=/blah; echo \$PATH\"",
>> logoutput => true;
>> }
>>
>> returns the old PATH value. While this returns MYVAL,
>>
>> exec {"foo4":
>> command => "/bin/bash -c \"export MYVAR=MYVAL; echo \$MYVAR\"",
>> logoutput => true;
>> }
>>
>> Is this an actual bug or am I missing something?
>
> PATH is usually declared using the resource variable "path" so I wouldn't be
> surprised if it acts strange if you declare it in "environment". Might be a
> bug, but it wouldn't surprise me.
>
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