Thanks for you help.
Does that mean that there is no way to do it from inside of a puppet
module?
On Nov 8, 5:11 pm, Richard Crowley <r...@rcrowley.org> wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to setting http_proxy environment variable by adding it
> > to the /etc/environment file.
>
> > I was wondering how I can force puppet to reload this file whenever
> > the file changes.
>
> > I have tried a few things and none of them have worked,
>
> > 1.)
> > exec { "source_environment":
> > command => "source /etc/environment",
> > subscribe => File["/etc/environment"],
> > refreshonly => true
> > }
>
> > 2.)
> > exec { "source /etc/environment":
> > subscribe => File["/etc/environment"],
> > refreshonly => true
> > }
>
> > 3.)
> > exec { "export http_proxy="http://localhost:3128"":
> > subscribe => File["/etc/environment"],
> > refreshonly => true
> > }
>
> > Is there a better way to do this? I just need to ensure that the
> > environment var http_proxy is globally set.
>
> No subshell will be able to modify the parent's environment, which is
> what you're after. Try setting environment variables in the Puppet
> process's environment:
>
> rcrow...@wd-40:~$ puppet apply test.pp
> warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn
> notice: /Stage[main]//Exec[sh -c 'echo $HOOAH >/tmp/foo']/returns:
> executed successfully
> rcrow...@wd-40:~$ cat /tmp/foo
>
> rcrow...@wd-40:~$ HOOAH=hooah puppet apply test.pp
> warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn
> notice: /Stage[main]//Exec[sh -c 'echo $HOOAH >/tmp/foo']/returns:
> executed successfully
> rcrow...@wd-40:~$ cat /tmp/foo
> hooah
> rcrow...@wd-40:~$
>
> Setting values in /etc/environment will probably work provided you
> restart the Puppet process in question after the contents of that file
> have been set.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Richard
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