On May 1, 5:59 pm, Brandon Evans <bev...@adicio.com> wrote: > no-can-do. What exactly are you trying to get done?
Apologies for leaving that out -- I'd hoped to not muddy the water with the details, but now it seems I must. I want to install a home-built package whose application runs on a virtual console exclusively. Which VC specifically is controlled by that app's conf file. This app must be able to run on a VC that is normally occupied by a getty so therefore prior to app startup, it is necessary to tell upstart to disable that getty. I want puppet to do all of this, of course. The basic steps and required sequence are: 1. install package 2. install conf file for package 3. extract VC number from conf file, say as $ttynum 4. exec "initctl stop tty$ttynum" 5. exec "app" Puppet does NOT know what VC number is in the conf file -- it must extract this. (The reasons are way beyond the scope here.) Now, I've made step 3 a bit easier by revising the package so that it's possible to run "app --show-vc" and it'll parse the conf file and send the number to stdout. I cannot run this command directly with the generate function because of the embedded space character. So I thought I'd cheat and have puppet generate a temp file that is essentially a one-line shell script to run that command and have the generate function call this temporary file instead. Now it becomes a question of how to ensure that puppet creates the temp script before the generate function calls it. This is starting to look like a real headache. Unless someone sees an easier way to do something like this, I think I'll just revise the app to do step 4 itself -- although that is rather icky in itself. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
