I agree with Daniel... if USER 1 is creating FOLDER 1 which is owned by root... why is COMMAND 1 not being run by the user root?
-- Nathan Clemons http://www.livemocha.com The worlds largest online language learning community On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, ssk1287 <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com>wrote: > Consider the following scenario. > > I have a PROCESS 1 triggered by COMMAND 1 which is run by USER 1 that > creates a folder FOLDER 1 which is owned by the root as it should be > accessible to all users of the system. Now, before I run COMMAND 1, I > need to run a command COMMAND 2 that clean ups this FOLDER 1 that was > created during the previous run so as to have a fresh start. Since > FOLDER 1 is owned by root, I need to run COMMAND 2 as a root user but > my COMMAND 1 is run by USER 1. > > On Jun 25, 1:56 pm, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > Nope. If you feel strongly that there should be, you can drop in a > > feature request or submit a patch, and we would be happy to consider > > it. Generally, though, it seems like a very strange requirement. I > > can't imagine why you would need to do those operations as different > > users, although I absolutely believe you when you say that you do. > > > > It would be very helpful, so, if you could explain what the root cause > > of that need is. :) > > > > Daniel > > > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:54, ssk1287 <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > That is exactly what I ended up using. Isn't there a more "puppetty" > > > way of doing this ? > > > > > On Jun 24, 5:41 pm, Nathan Clemons <nat...@livemocha.com> wrote: > > >> Use su -c <cmd> user? > > >> -- > > >> Nathan Clemonshttp://www.livemocha.com > > >> The worlds largest online language learning communityOn Fri, Jun 24, > 2011 at 3:06 PM, ssk1287 <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > I have the following exec in my manifest : > > > > >> > exec { some_exec: > > >> > path => [ "/bin","/usr/bin","/usr/local/bin" ], > > >> > command => "EXECUTE COMMAND 1", > > >> > onlyif => "EXECUTE COMMAND 2", > > >> > logoutput => "on_failure" > > >> > } > > > > >> > I want that the "COMMAND 1" should be executed by "USER 1" and > > >> > "COMMAND 2" should be executed by "USER 2". Is there a way to do it > ? > > >> > I tried giving the "users" parameter, but that seems to apply to > both > > >> > the commands. > > > > >> > Thanks in advance, > > > > >> > -- > > >> > 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. > > > > > -- > > > 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 athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer –http://puppetlabs.com > > ✉ Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> > > ✆ Contact me via gtalk, email, or phone: +1 (877) 575-9775 > > ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
