On 12/13/2010 03:39 PM, Gergely Paljak wrote: > Hi, > > On 7 December 2010 15:43, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de > <mailto:felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de>> wrote: > > On 11/29/2010 02:23 PM, Gergely Paljak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am fairly new to puppet, and my question would be: > > > > - is it possible to write new function and use them in standalone > mode? > > According to > > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Writing_Your_Own_Functions > functions > > can only be executed on a server, is there any possibility to overcome > > this in standalone? > > I haven't tried adding custom functions, but if you add them to the node > running puppet, I cannot see why it should only work for a puppetmaster. > The documentation might be written in such a way as to point out that > puppetd is not going to sync your custom functions (from the master) to > the client node. > > > This one works just fine, just had to add my own function to the > directory with the rest of the puppet functions. > > I think standalone puppet is a whole different story. > > > - and is it possible to save the output of an exec resource to a > puppet > > variable? My workaround is to print the stdout to a file and read the > > file into a puppet variable (with the file function). It works, > but not > > the nicest... > > Are you sure you don't want a custom fact instead? > What you are asking sounds like a rather awkward hack to me. > > > The thing is, I'd like to log the stdout of my exec for auditing, > primarily for failed executions I need some error message, exception > trace, etc. But looks like I will have to write my on exec resource or > modify exec. Not sure, though, if it's possible to return a value from a > resource - or is it only functions?
You may want to consider this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/f1a71cfd423eb89d/bea212d47ef9a938?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=obtaining+stdout+information+from+client+configuration+executions#bea212d47ef9a938 (Google Groups is an ass for not including a link *to the friggin thread* in the automatic message footers, btw! Yes, Google, I'm talking to you!) Regards, Felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
