Hi Peter
I managed to get this working by have the cwd in place, but im interested
in your point with regards to setting up the dependency any chance you can
provide an example of this based on what I have at present.
On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 5:29:06 PM UTC+1, pmbuko wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 5:40 AM, duckegg01 wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have wriiten a class to deploy a tra file and extract on a remote
> puppet client. The tar file gets copied across fine and it seems to puppet
> the thet tar extraction suceeds, but when I check the client I dont see the
> extracted files
> >
> > exec { "Deploy Code":
> > command => "/bin/tar -xvf /var/tmp/deploy.tar",
> > onlyif => [
> > "/usr/bin/test -d /var/tmp/test/"
> #just testing this
> > ]
> > }
>
> I see two possible issues. First, you either need to give the exec
> resource a working directory via the 'cwd' parameter, or you need to use
> tar's -C option to specify where to extract the files. Without either of
> these, files will extract into the home of whichever user is running
> puppet. So either add this parameter:
>
> cwd => '/var/tmp/,
>
> or use this as your tar command ( -- # note that I skipped the verbose
> switch since it's not interactive):
>
> /bin/tar -xf /var/tmp/deploy.tar -C /var/tmp
>
> Another possible issue: If you want /var/tmp/deploy.tar to extract to
> /var/tmp/test, then you need to leave off the 'onlyif' parameter.
> Currently, the exec will only run if /var/tmp/test already exists.
>
> One last thing. If you haven't done so already, set up a dependency
> between the file resource that copies the tar file to the node and the exec
> resource that extracts it -- either via a notify parameter in the file
> resource or a require parameter in the exec resource.
>
> --
> Peter Bukowinski
>
>
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