Hi,
On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 05:45 -0700, Daniele Sluijters wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> In Puppet 3 Puppet does its absolute best to make sure $HOME, $USER
> and $LOGNAME environment variables are unset and nowhere to be found.
> I realise this change was necessary because it caused some weird
> start-up issues with Puppet but this also killed our RabbitMQ module.
>
>
> RabbitMQ is written in Erlang and that thing _requires_ a $HOME to be
> set as it will try to write an erlang-cookie to it and horribly fail
> and go up in flames if it can't. Since Puppet 3 every Exec we have in
> the RabbitMQ module now fails because of this. We've tried changing
> the command to '$HOME=/var/lib/misc/puppet rabbitmqctl <do something>'
> but yet again the Exec type just nukes the environment too. This being
> the 'offending' pull request which got
> merged:
> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/14670c5850462472f5efcfc6ea11d2b4cab708a7
>
>
> So, short of patching Puppet to not do this or generate static
> wrappers for every rabbitmqctl command which then in turn get called
> by an Exec, how do we solve this? I really don't feel like generating
> wrappers for every Exec that needs one of those environment variables
> set. I'd actually expect that Exec would allow me to explicitly pass
> in environment variables that I really need set in that case but the
> docs don't seem to know anything about that.
Can you not just set resource defaults like:
Exec {
environment => "HOME=/home/wibble"
}
?
Cheers,
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