It seems reasonable to me to always print the output.  I can't think of any
cases where I wouldn't want that to happen.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Morgan Haskel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've recently started using postrun_command.  It seems very useful, but
> I'd
> > really like to be able to optionally print the output from the postrun
> > command so the users can see any relevant messages.  I patched 2.6.4 to
> get
> > this working with the new options print_prerun_output and
> > print_postrun_output (both defaulting to false).
> >
> > My patch is included below.
>
> Thanks for the patch Morgan.
>
> Do you think it's reasonable to just always print the output of these
> commands? I'm trying to think whether there are use cases where it
> shouldn't be displayed that justify the added complexity of more
> configuration settings.
>
>
>
> >
> > ~Morgan
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/configurer.rb b/configurer.rb
> > index 31d31c2..194acc1 100644
> > --- a/configurer.rb
> > +++ b/configurer.rb
> > @@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ class Puppet::Configurer
> >    end
> >
> >    def execute_postrun_command
> > -    execute_from_setting(:postrun_command)
> > +    execute_from_setting(:postrun_command,
> Puppet[:print_postrun_output])
> >    end
> >
> >    def execute_prerun_command
> > -    execute_from_setting(:prerun_command)
> > +    execute_from_setting(:prerun_command, Puppet[:print_prerun_output])
> >    end
> >
> >    # Initialize and load storage
> > @@ -200,11 +200,14 @@ class Puppet::Configurer
> >      timeout
> >    end
> >
> > -  def execute_from_setting(setting)
> > +  def execute_from_setting(setting, print_output = false)
> >      return if (command = Puppet[setting]) == ""
> >
> >      begin
> > -      Puppet::Util.execute([command])
> > +      output = Puppet::Util.execute([command])
> > +      if print_output then
> > +        Puppet.info(output)
> > +      end
> >      rescue => detail
> >        raise CommandHookError, "Could not run command from #{setting}:
> > #{detail}"
> >      end
> > diff --git a/defaults.rb b/defaults.rb
> > index 4521a59..e0d2cda 100644
> > --- a/defaults.rb
> > +++ b/defaults.rb
> > @@ -168,6 +168,12 @@ module Puppet
> >      :postrun_command => ["", "A command to run after every agent run.
> If
> > this command returns a non-zero
> >        return code, the entire Puppet run will be considered to have
> failed,
> > even though it might have
> >        performed work during the normal run."],
> > +    :print_prerun_output => [false,
> > +      "Boolean; whether to print output from the prerun_command at the
> > 'info' level."
> > +    ],
> > +    :print_postrun_output => [false,
> > +      "Boolean; whether to print output from the postrun_command at the
> > 'info' level."
> > +    ],
> >      :freeze_main => [false, "Freezes the 'main' class, disallowing any
> code
> > to be added to it.  This
> >        essentially means that you can't have any code outside of a node,
> > class, or definition other
> >        than in the site manifest."]
> >
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