thank you! that worked! Luke Jaeger | www.trickfilm.org
> On Apr 7, 2020, at 3:53 PM, Jeff Bonhag <jbon...@hashicorp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Rather than shelling out to command line tools to get those values, you can
> use some built-in Ruby functions to achieve the same result. That will make
> your Vagrantfile a little more cross-platform compatible.
>
> Try something like this:
>
> require 'date'
>
> username = ENV['USERNAME'] || ENV['USER']
> myDate = DateTime.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S')
> myhostname = "#{username}-linux-vm-#{myDate}"
>
> Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
> config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
> config.vm.hostname = "#{myhostname}"
> end
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:48 PM Luke Jaeger <luke.jae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my Vagrantfile so that it appends the current date and
> time to the hostname.
> This works on Mac OS but not on Windows. Is there some other way for me to do
> this?
> thanks!
>
> ########
>
> # -*- mode: ruby -*-
> # vi: set ft=ruby :
>
> # All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure
> # configures the configuration version (we support older styles for
> # backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what
> # you're doing.
>
> ## THIS IS THE VAGRANTFILE FOR GENERIC 'my-linux-vm'
>
> username = `whoami`.chomp # you need chomp as the result of the command
> executed this way returns \n at the end
> myDate = `date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S`.chomp
> myhostname = "#{username}-linux-vm-#{myDate}"
> Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
> config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
> config.vm.provision :shell, path: "install-extras.sh"
>
> # this works:
> config.vm.hostname = "#{myhostname}"
>
> config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
> v.name = "#{myhostname}"
> end
>
> config.trigger.after :up do |updatePkgs|
> updatePkgs.warn = "Checking for software updates"
> updatePkgs.run_remote = {inline: "apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade -y"}
> end
>
> config.vm.synced_folder "./shared", "/shared", create: true
>
> end
>
>
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