I have the fact.
The problem is that I want to get the user's homedir based on the
$user parameter passed to my define, and ${home_${user}} doesn't
work.
I've solved the problem by handling things a different way, but it
does seem like it shouldn't be this hard to put a file in a user's
homedir.
-Robin
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 04:34:24PM -0400, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>
> Try this command string to obtain your custom fact for $home_user:
>
> getent passwd | grep <username> | cut -f6 -d':'
>
> Be aware though, that you may experience extreme lag if you have a
> faulty authentication service (NIS, LDAP, whatever).
>
> There's probably a better way to do it, but that will at least be accurate.
>
> Trevor
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:15, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > What I want to do is:
> >
> > file { "~$user/.zshenv":
> > ...}
> >
> > but that doesn't work. I made custom facts for home dirs, so that
> > "home_root" should work, but his:
> >
> > file { "${home_$user}/.zshenv":
> > ...}
> >
> > doesn't work either.
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> > --
> > They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
> > And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
> > other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
> > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
--
They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
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