Hi, On 7 December 2010 15:43, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de>wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 02:23 PM, Gergely Paljak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am fairly new to puppet, and my question would be: > > > > - is it possible to write new function and use them in standalone mode? > > According to > > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Writing_Your_Own_Functionsfunctions > > can only be executed on a server, is there any possibility to overcome > > this in standalone? > > I haven't tried adding custom functions, but if you add them to the node > running puppet, I cannot see why it should only work for a puppetmaster. > The documentation might be written in such a way as to point out that > puppetd is not going to sync your custom functions (from the master) to > the client node. > This one works just fine, just had to add my own function to the directory with the rest of the puppet functions. I think standalone puppet is a whole different story. > > > - and is it possible to save the output of an exec resource to a puppet > > variable? My workaround is to print the stdout to a file and read the > > file into a puppet variable (with the file function). It works, but not > > the nicest... > > Are you sure you don't want a custom fact instead? > What you are asking sounds like a rather awkward hack to me. > The thing is, I'd like to log the stdout of my exec for auditing, primarily for failed executions I need some error message, exception trace, etc. But looks like I will have to write my on exec resource or modify exec. Not sure, though, if it's possible to return a value from a resource - or is it only functions? Thanks, Gergely > > Regards, > Felix > > -- > 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
