[Puppet Users] Re: Passing input to script within an exec statement fails

Allan Marcus
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:16:46 -0000

You could try to add

path    => "/bin:/usr/bin",

for the echo command.

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Thanks,

Allan Marcus
505-667-5666



On Sep 28, 2009, at 8:46 AM, paul matthews wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From the command line I can successfully perform this:-
>
> echo y | /mnt/Linux/install.sh
>
> Trying the same thing from an exec, though, fails and I''m not too
> sure how to get round it
>
>           command => "(echo y | /mnt/Linux/install.sh)",
>
> err: //Node[host]/vm_post_install/Exec[install-xenserver-tools]/
> returns: change from notrun to 0 failed: (echo y | /mnt/Linux/
> install.sh) returned 1 instead of 0 at /etc/puppet/modules/
> vm_post_install/manifests/init.pp:30
>
> I''ve tried without the brackets as well - same result
>
> Unfortunately, in this case the option does not exist to avoid the
> script (as I''m mounting an iso and running the package''s
install
> script)
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
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> Paul Matthews
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