On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:18:20 PM UTC-5, Derek Strickland wrote:
>
> I have a script that I execute to run a mono exe during a setup process.
> I would like to automate that with puppet but the exe depends on an
> environment variable being set or it will fail. My setup.sh file looks
> like this.
>
> export MY_ENV_VAR=$HOME/target_dir
> /usr/mono/bin/mono $HOME/path_to_exe/Setup.exe
>
> this fails because well $HOME is meaningless in a puppet context. Here's
> is what I would like to do.
>
> exec { 'myscript':
> command => "/bin/sh /some_path/scripts/setup.sh",
> }
>
> I can't change the mono exe to not rely on special environment variable.
> That isn't an option.
>
> So in summary I need to be able to set a special env variable for the exec
> context and I have to be able to dynamically change the path to the exe
> because each users home directory will be different. I searched for a
> while but now my eyes are just crossed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
This is what the "environment" parameter of the Exec resource type is for.
John
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