On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Tim Mooney <tim.moo...@ndsu.edu> wrote:
> We have some custom types & providers related to mysql (mysql_user,
> mysql_grant, mysql_db) written by an admin that's no longer here. The
> provider just uses the mysql command to run various commands, e.g:
>
> Puppet::Type.type(:mysql_user)**.provide(:mysql) do
> desc "Provider for a mysql user"
>
> optional_commands :mysql => 'mysql'
>
> mk_resource_methods
>
> def create
> debug "mysql_user create"
> @property_hash[:ensure] = :present
> mysql('mysql','-e',"create user '%s' identified by '%s';" %
> [@resource[:name].sub("@","'@'**"),@resource[:password]])
> end
>
> def flush
> debug "in flush"
> mysql('mysql','-e','flush privileges;')
> @property_hash.clear
> end
>
> # other stuff elided
> end
>
> For this particular provider/type to work, though, it requires that
> you actually have root's environment, because it relies on reading some
> config from /root/.my.cnf.
>
> That means that on most of our hosts, doing
>
> sudo puppet agent --test
>
> works fine, but on hosts where we use our mysql module with the custom
> types and provider, we can't do that. We instead have to
>
> sudo su -
> puppet agent --test
>
> to make certain we've picked up root's environment, specifically HOME.
>
> What I would like to do is augment the provider so that the mysql command
> is always invoked with the environment augmented with HOME=/root or
> (even better) HOME=roots_home_from_facter.
>
> I'm not certain how to pass an environment variable to an external command
> that's invoked as part of a puppet provider, though, and the searches I've
> done so far haven't turned up anything helpful.
>
> Can anyone that's familiar with writing types and providers shed some
> light on what I should be doing to augment this? I know this is as much
> ruby ignorance as puppet ignorance, but I have to believe that there are
> people here that can point me in the right direction.
>
In Puppet 3, home environment can be passed something like:
has_command(:brew, 'brew') do
environment({ 'HOME' => ENV['HOME'] })
end
HTH,
Nan
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