Re: [Puppet Users] Commands within commands within a manifest

2011-12-16 Thread Felix Frank
Well, On 12/15/2011 10:39 PM, Dan White wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. > tee /path/to/where-I-want-logfile-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).log did not work. > > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' if you're not using single quotes, you shall have to escape the dollar sign so puppet doesn'

Re: [Puppet Users] Commands within commands within a manifest

2011-12-15 Thread Dan White
Thanks for the suggestions. tee /path/to/where-I-want-logfile-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).log did not work. bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' I will let you know if the single quote option works. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is

Re: [Puppet Users] Commands within commands within a manifest

2011-12-15 Thread Dan Rao
You could try: tee /path/to/where-I-want-logfile-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).log Alternatively, since it doesn't look like you're using any puppet variables in the command string, you could try using single quotes (i.e. restart => '/path/ ...') so puppet won't try to interpret anything it sees in ther