generate with spaces?

Gary Richardson
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:28:07 -0000

Hi,
I''ve been using puppet for about a week and a half now, and
it''s definitely
making my life a lot easier. I''m using 0.24.1 and I''ve run
into a small
snag.

I''m trying to write some code to make sure user home directories exist
for
users in LDAP. I''m trying to get their uid, gid and home directory from
getent with something like:

$uid      = generate("/usr/bin/getentfield passwd $title 3")

getentfield is a bash script that basically does a getent $1 $2 | cut -d :
-f $3.

When I try running the generate, I get:

Generators can only contain alphanumerics, file separators, and dashes

I figured it might be a variable interpolation thing, so I tried taking
$title out. I got the same error on the same line number.

Then I tried a plain generate("/usr/bin/getentfield") and it executed.

Are spaces really not allowed in generate calls? Doesn''t that sort of
make
generate useless? I''m guessing/hoping it''s a typo in a regex
somewhere..

If there''s a better way to get external information, I''d
gladly use that
instead..

Thanks!