In regard to: Re: [Puppet Users] passing an environment variable to a...:
On Jun 28, 2013 2:06 PM, "Tim Mooney" <tim.moo...@ndsu.edu> wrote:
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
An alternative and trivia in addition to what Nan said:
You can use
sudo -H
to set $HOME, or
sudo -i
to get a full login environment like 'su -' gives. There are also sudoers
config params that can make at least the former default, and probably the
latter too.
Thanks Wil. I knew about each of these, but I would rather fix the
type/provider to work even with normal sudo usage, rather than requiring
people to remember to use one of these. Yes, they could use aliases or
shell functions, but I still think it's a better solution to make
type/provider work for any case.
Additionally, you can explicitly pass the path of the `my.cnf`, rather than
relying on $HOME,
I've thought about this too and I agree that it's even better. To
do it right, though, I would want to make it use the root_home fact.
That's one more thing I don't know how to do yet, though. It looks like
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/provider_development.html
has a section on using facts in providers, so I'll do some experimenting
and see if I can't muddle through.
Tim
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