Puppet users - Jul 2012 - How do I "cd" (change directory) with Puppet's exec?

I sort of "need" to do this to run a Makefile that uses local
directories...

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Specifically, when I have "cd" in command => ".." it says
it cannot find
the command "cd".

On Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:31:38 PM UTC-7, Benjamin Lei
wrote:
>
> I sort of "need" to do this to run a Makefile that uses local 
> directories...
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Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:33:00 -0700 (PDT)
Benjamin Lei <benlei1691@gmail.com> wrote:
> Specifically, when I have "cd" in command => ".." it
says it cannot
> find the command "cd".
Because it is a builtin command in the shell. Either let a shell
execute your command or use the pwd (or cwd?) parameter.

Best regards

Hendrik Jäger

On Friday, July 6, 2012 2:10:13 AM UTC-5, Hendrik Jäger
wrote:
>
> [...] let a shell 
> execute your command [...]
>
Which you can do fairly easily by adding "provider =>
''sh''" to your Exec''s
parameters.

Or if you need a non-default shell or you just like doing things the hard 
way, then you can use a variation on

bash -c ''my command here''

as your command.


John

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On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 08:44:51AM -0700, jcbollinger
wrote:
> 
> 
> On Friday, July 6, 2012 2:10:13 AM UTC-5, Hendrik Jäger wrote:
> >
> > [...] let a shell 
> > execute your command [...]
> >
> 
> Which you can do fairly easily by adding "provider =>
''sh''" to your Exec''s
> parameters.
> 
> Or if you need a non-default shell or you just like doing things the hard 
> way, then you can use a variation on
> 
> bash -c ''my command here''
> 
> as your command.
Instead of doing these kinds of work-arounds I''d just use the cwd
parameter of the exec resource as described in the type reference [1]

so e.g.

    exec { ''make_sendmail'':
      command => ''/usr/bin/make'',
      cwd     => ''/etc/mail''
    }

If you have GNU make you can also ask the make command itself to change
the directory (-C dir, --directory=dir)

[1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec

-Stefan

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