well, nevermind. It's now today, and I've not changed the server, the
client, the shell script, nor the manifest, yet it's
magically working today!
my blind trust in the reliability of computers and software has been
shattered. I'll never
be the same again..... ;^)
- Allen
On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 11:45:30 AM UTC-7, Allen Myers wrote:
>
> and one more piece of info: The puppet server is configured using
> Passenger+apache. When I run
>
> puppet agent --test
>
>
> on a client system, parsejson fails by truncating the hash output.
>
> But if I just run 'puppet apply ...' on the puppet server, as in
>
> puppet apply create-users.pp
>
>
> which contains
>
> $myusers = parsejson (generate ('/bin/sh', '-c',
> '/var/lib/puppet/lib/create-user-hash.sh'))
> notice ($myusers)
>
>
> it works perfectly.
>
> - Allen
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 12:47:10 PM UTC-7, Allen Myers wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got the following statements in my manifest:
>>
>> $myusers_json = generate ('/bin/sh', '-c', '/path/to/my/script.sh')
>> notice ($myusers_json)
>> $myusers = parsejson ($myusers_json)
>> notice ($myusers)
>>
>>
>> My script generates a list of users in JSON and I've verified that the
>> output format from 'notice ($myusers_json)' is correct using jsonlint.com
>> .
>> However, the output of 'notice ($myusers)' is always limited to 1985
>> bytes. It's just truncating the output. I know it's not just a short-coming
>> of the 'notice' function because when I call
>>
>> create_resources(user, $myusers)
>>
>>
>> if fails with the error
>>
>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
>> SERVER: expected ',' or '}' in object at '"user1" : { "'! at
>> /etc/puppet/environments/mgmt/manifests/01-all-nodes.pp:24 on node
>> pupper-server1
>>
>>
>> If I modify script.sh so that the result is less than a certain length
>> (depends on the number of fields and how many ':' get converted to '=>'), it
>> works just fine. But the final output in puppet has format is being
>> limited to 1985 bytes.
>>
>> Any fix or work-around for this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Allen
>>
>
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