Hi,
I have a custom provider that seems to run ok in isolation by itself.
In addition, puppet does not complain at all when it runs. However,
when I ensure => installed a package the desired package is never
installed.
There are a few differences between this and something such as the gem
provide
On Jan 6, 4:01 pm, pl wrote:
> def install
> output = `sudo -u node sh -c \"export PATH=/home/node/opt/bin:$
> {PATH}; npm install http-console\"`
> if output =~ /npm not ok/
> raise Puppet::ExecutionFailure, "Failed to install
> #{resource[:nam
I have in /var/log/messages is
"Provider npm has not defined the 'instances' class method"
Is that required?
On Jan 6, 4:10 pm, pl wrote:
> On Jan 6, 4:01 pm, pl wrote:
>
> > def install
> > output = `sudo -u node sh -c \"export PATH=/home/
Hi,
> Puppet::Provider::Package defines the prefetch class method. This is
> called at the beginning of the puppet run to find matches between existing
> packages and the one you described in your manifest. Prefetch calls
> instances which should return an array of provider instances. One
> provid
Hi,
> Puppet::Util::SUIDManager.asuser("username", "group") do
> # do stuff here as different user
> end
Not sure this works how you suggested as this
Puppet::Util::SUIDManager.asuser("userx", "userx") do
execpipe("whoami") do |output|
Will report root, not userx.
I'll check th
Hi,
> Can you instrument your code to
> dump Process.uid and Process.gid from Ruby-space in the block? That
> way we can help narrow down where things are going wrong.
Process.uid was telling me 500, which was the intended user. whoami
inside the execpipe was root though.
I've ended up doing th
This is the situation:
We have a bunch of config files. We check if mtime changed.
The line written in syslog is trapped by a monitoring tool and someone
is warned.
This works fine...
What we want is
1. to backup the file when mtime has changed (and keep x versions)
2. execute a diff between ne
