Puppet users - Sep 2013 - Puppet exec error on windows 2008 server

Hi

I am stuck at a very basic issue in my the following exec resource. I am 
executing this on windows 2008 R2 server.

When I apply this manifest, puppet always complains saying dcpromo.exe is 
not an internal or external command. I exactly appended the path of 
dcpromo.exe to the ''path'' variable, but still it
can''t find it. I even
tried the "cmd /c" trick in the command with no luck.


    exec { ''install_dc'':
      command => "dcpromo.exe /unattend:dc_unattend.txt",
      path    => "C:\\;C:\\Windows\System32\\;${path}",
      timeout => 2400,
    }

Help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Harsh

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Hi Harsh,
    Refer *exec* and *shell builtins* sections present in the 
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/troubleshooting.html,
This might help troubleshooting your problem.

Thanks and Regards,
Rahul Khengare,
NTT DATA OSS Center, Pune, India.


On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 2:20:38 PM UTC+5:30, Harsh Desai
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am stuck at a very basic issue in my the following exec resource. I am 
> executing this on windows 2008 R2 server.
>
> When I apply this manifest, puppet always complains saying dcpromo.exe is 
> not an internal or external command. I exactly appended the path of 
> dcpromo.exe to the ''path'' variable, but still it
can''t find it. I even
> tried the "cmd /c" trick in the command with no luck.
>
>
>     exec { ''install_dc'':
>       command => "dcpromo.exe /unattend:dc_unattend.txt",
>       path    => "C:\\;C:\\Windows\System32\\;${path}",
>       timeout => 2400,
>     }
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Harsh
>
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On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Harsh Desai wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am stuck at a very basic issue in my the following exec resource. I am
> executing this on windows 2008 R2 server.
>
> When I apply this manifest, puppet always complains saying dcpromo.exe is
> not an internal or external command. I exactly appended the path of
> dcpromo.exe to the ''path'' variable, but still it
can''t find it. I even
> tried the "cmd /c" trick in the command with no luck.
>
>
>     exec { ''install_dc'':
>       command => "dcpromo.exe /unattend:dc_unattend.txt",
>       path    => "C:\\;C:\\Windows\System32\\;${path}",
>       timeout => 2400,
>     }
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Harsh
>
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This is likely a file system redirection issue (assuming you''re on
x64). If
so, try specifying the command as
''c:\windows\sysnative\dcpromo.exe''

Josh


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On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 15:59:15 UTC+2, Josh Cooper
wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Harsh Desai wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am stuck at a very basic issue in my the following exec resource. I
am
>> executing this on windows 2008 R2 server.
>>
>> When I apply this manifest, puppet always complains saying dcpromo.exe
is
>> not an internal or external command. I exactly appended the path of 
>> dcpromo.exe to the ''path'' variable, but still it
can''t find it. I even
>> tried the "cmd /c" trick in the command with no luck.
>>
>>
>>     exec { ''install_dc'':
>>       command => "dcpromo.exe /unattend:dc_unattend.txt",
>>       path    => "C:\\;C:\\Windows\System32\\;${path}",
>>       timeout => 2400,
>>     }
>>
>> Help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Harsh
>>
>>
>
> This is likely a file system redirection issue (assuming you''re on
x64).
> If so, try specifying the command as
''c:\windows\sysnative\dcpromo.exe''
>
>
Yes, changing the path to c:\windows\sysnative resolved the same problem 
for me.

Ringo 

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