Hi, Sorry, I got confused between two things. It's not the actual Exec type. it's when a provider executes a command that the environment cannot be set.
-- Daniele Sluijters On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:00:54 UTC+2, Stephen Gran wrote: > > 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, > -- > Stephen Gran > Senior Systems Integrator - The Guardian > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Visit guardian.co.uk - newspaper of the year > > www.guardian.co.uk www.observer.co.uk www.guardiannews.com > > On your mobile, visit m.guardian.co.uk or download the Guardian > iPhone app www.guardian.co.uk/iphone and iPad edition > www.guardian.co.uk/iPad > > Save up to 37% by subscribing to the Guardian and Observer - choose the > papers you want and get full digital access. > Visit guardian.co.uk/subscribe > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail and all attachments are confidential and may also > be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify > the sender and delete the e-mail and all attachments immediately. > Do not disclose the contents to another person. You may not use > the information for any purpose, or store, or copy, it in any way. > > Guardian News & Media Limited is not liable for any computer > viruses or other material transmitted with or as part of this > e-mail. You should employ virus checking software. > > Guardian News & Media Limited > > A member of Guardian Media Group plc > Registered Office > PO Box 68164 > Kings Place > 90 York Way > London > N1P 2AP > > Registered in England Number 908396 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/ghtP6bqOcegJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
