On Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:26:45 AM UTC-5, F. Y. wrote:
>
> Hello Puppet Users,
>
> I am running into a weird issue when trying to execute an installer on
> Ubuntu 10.04/12.04 machines. I am using Puppet 3.2.1, and 3.2.2
> respectively from Puppet Labs repo.
>
> This is the sample code:
>
> class installpackage {
> file { 'MyInstallerFile':
> path => '/tmp/MyInstallerFile',
> ensure => present,
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> mode => '777',
> source => 'puppet:///extra_files/MyInstallerFile',
> }
> file { 'answer_file':
> path => '/tmp/answer_file',
> ensure => present,
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> mode => '777',
> source => 'puppet:///extra_file/answer_file',
> }
>
> exec { "install":
> cwd => '/tmp',
> command => '/tmp/MyInstallerFile --answer /tmp/answer_file',
> logoutput => true,
> require => File['MyInstallerFile', 'answer_file'],
> }
> }
>
> The error I get is this (i.e. it can't find $HOME set):
>
> Info: Retrieving plugin
> Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/root_home.rb
> Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb
> Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/pe_version.rb
> Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb
> Info: Caching catalog for puppetagent.example.com
> Info: Applying configuration version '1370899438'
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: couldn't find HOME
> environment variable to expand path
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: while executing
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: "file normalize ~"
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: (procedure
> "::InstallJammer::HomeDir" line 2)
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: invoked from
> within
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns:
> "::InstallJammer::HomeDir"
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: (procedure
> "::InstallJammer::CommonInit" line 183)
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: invoked from
> within
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns:
> "::InstallJammer::CommonInit"
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: (procedure
> "::InstallJammer::InitInstall" line 19)
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: invoked from
> within
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns:
> "::InstallJammer::InitInstall"
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: (file
> "/installkitvfs/main.tcl" line 71313)
> Error: /tmp/MyInstallerFile --answer /tmp/answer_file returned 1 instead of
> one of [0]
> Error: /Stage[main]/Installpackage/Exec[install]/returns: change from notrun
> to 0 failed: MyInstallerFile --answer /tmp/answer_file returned 1 instead of
> one of [0]
> Notice: Finished catalog run in 5.31 seconds
>
> I did notice that if I append "sudo" before the command I want to execute, it
> works. Is there a more elegant solution?
>
>
By default, Puppet runs external commands in an extremely sparse
environment. This is a good practice for both security, correctness, and
consistency reasons. Ideally, you would not use Exec to run commands that
depend on their environment, but in practice, you cannot always avoid that.
Running a command indirectly via sudo works around your issue because sudo
by default provides an environment that is slightly richer than the one
Puppet provides. A better solution, however, is to use the Exec's 'env'
parameter to set environment variables that your script needs. Be aware
also of the 'path' and 'cwd' parameters, which have related purposes.
You should also consider, however, why your script needs $HOME in the first
place. It shouldn't need that for temp files, and you probably don't want
to install the software in the Puppet agent's (or root's) home directory,
or to modify anything there or even base any decisions on the files it may
or may not find there. So what does the script want it for, that you
actually want it to do?
John
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