Puppet users - Sep 2013 - Execute Mono exe that depends on an environment variable

I have a script that I execute to run a mono exe during a setup process.  I 
would like to automate that with puppet but the exe depends on an 
environment variable being set or it will fail.  My setup.sh file looks 
like this.  

export MY_ENV_VAR=$HOME/target_dir
/usr/mono/bin/mono $HOME/path_to_exe/Setup.exe

this fails because well $HOME is meaningless in a puppet context. 
Here''s
is what I would like to do.

exec { ''myscript'':
        command => "/bin/sh /some_path/scripts/setup.sh", 
}

I can''t change the mono exe to not rely on special environment
variable.
 That isn''t an option.  

So in summary I need to be able to set a special env variable for the exec 
context and I have to be able to dynamically change the path to the exe 
because each users home directory will be different.  I searched for a 
while but now my eyes are just crossed. 

Any ideas?


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On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:18:20 PM UTC-5, Derek Strickland
wrote:
>
> I have a script that I execute to run a mono exe during a setup process. 
>  I would like to automate that with puppet but the exe depends on an 
> environment variable being set or it will fail.  My setup.sh file looks 
> like this.  
>
> export MY_ENV_VAR=$HOME/target_dir
> /usr/mono/bin/mono $HOME/path_to_exe/Setup.exe
>
> this fails because well $HOME is meaningless in a puppet context. 
Here''s
> is what I would like to do.
>
> exec { ''myscript'':
>         command => "/bin/sh /some_path/scripts/setup.sh", 
> }
>
> I can''t change the mono exe to not rely on special environment
variable.
>  That isn''t an option.  
>
> So in summary I need to be able to set a special env variable for the exec 
> context and I have to be able to dynamically change the path to the exe 
> because each users home directory will be different.  I searched for a 
> while but now my eyes are just crossed. 
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
This is what the "environment" parameter of the Exec resource type is
for.


John
 

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