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Son of the Wai-Pan
Asked: 2013-05-29 21:30:39 +0800 CST

How do I exec finger with puppet?

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My puppet file looks like this:

# Test finger harry harry.pp
exec {'harryd':                                                                                                                   
   command => "/usr/bin/finger $title",                                                                                            
   logoutput => true                                                                                                               
 }

When I run puppet apply harry.pp I get this output:

notice: /Stage[main]//Exec[harryd]/returns: finger: main: no such user.
notice: /Stage[main]//Exec[harryd]/returns: executed successfully
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.14 seconds

Running finger harryd gets me the expected output. It looks like puppet is running finger main, but I don't understand why.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    $title is only specially set to the title of the resource within the scope of a defined type, which exec is not.

    So if you had..

    define finger {
  exec { 'finger-$title':                                                                                                             
    command   => "/usr/bin/finger $title",                                                                                            
    logoutput => true                                                                                                               
  }
}

finger { "harryd": }

    ..then that would work as intended, since within the scope of the defined type, $title is set to the title of the defined type.

    Can you clarify what you're trying to achieve?

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