Puppet users - Aug 2012 - getting output from command in custom provider

Is the output of a command called by puppet stored somewhere on the master 
or agent?

For example, if have the statement
---
commands :ls => "ls"
---

and then I try something like " ls, ''/'' "

where does the output of "ls /" go? I''ve tried poking around
in vardir on
both the master and the agent with no luck. I''m probably just missing
it,
but this would help with some debugging. I''m looking for both stdout
and
stderr.

Note: I''m not actually running ls, I figured it was an easy example of
a
command that writes to stdout/stderr

Thanks!

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM, ZJE <countach44@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Is the output of a command called by puppet stored somewhere on the master
or agent?
>
> For example, if have the statement
> ---
> commands :ls => "ls"
> ---
>
> and then I try something like " ls, ''/'' "
>
> where does the output of "ls /" go? I''ve tried poking
around in vardir on both the master and the agent with no luck. I''m
probably just missing it, but this would help with some debugging. I''m
looking for both stdout and stderr.
Puppet doesn''t capture the output of commands in a persistent way like
it does with the `logoutput` parameter for the exec type. It does get
written to a tempfile, but deleted soon after.

However, you could easily modify lib/puppet/provider.rb, line 121 (in
2.7.x), to output the result of calling `execute(cmd)`. That call will
return the combined stdout and stderr output as a string.

Josh

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:55:23AM -0700, ZJE wrote:
> Is the output of a command called by puppet stored somewhere on the master 
> or agent?
> 
> For example, if have the statement
> ---
> commands :ls => "ls"
> ---
> 
> and then I try something like " ls, ''/'' "
this does not seem right. The above command method marks the provider as
unsuitable if the ls command is not present and creates a method with
the name ls. So if you want to execute ls you do:

    output = ls(''-l'', ''/tmp'')
> 
> where does the output of "ls /" go?
it is the return value of the method "ls"

-Stefan

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