[chef] Re: Running package install with sudo

[Christian Requena < >]

Hi,

you can define your commands freely.

Example for tomcat. 

Define what do you want to do (i.e. in an attribute file):

# start the service

default[:tomcat][:start]= (platform == 'windows') ? 'C:\Applications\tomcat\bin\catalina.sh start' : \

                                                    "sudo service tomcat start"

# stop the service

default[:tomcat][:stop]= (platform == 'windows') ? 'C:\Applications\tomcat\bin\catalina.sh stop' : \

                                                   "sudo service tomcat stop"

#

# get service status. TODO: windows!?

default[:tomcat][:status]="sudo service tomcat status"

Overwrite the start,stop,... commands in your recipe:

...

service "tomcat" do

  action :nothing

  supports :start => true, :stop => true, :restart => true, :status => false 

  start_command node[:tomcat][:start]

  stop_command node[:tomcat][:stop]

  status_command node[:tomcat][:status]

  restart_command "#{node[:tomcat][:stop]} && #{node[:tomcat][:start]}"

end

...

hope that helps.

Salu2,

Christian

On 07.12.2010, at 22:37, Tristan Sloughter wrote:

I run my chef clients not as root. I want to be able to install an rpm (the RPM does not allow it to be relocated with --prefix, so it must go in /usr). 

I didn't want to but it seems I need to either run the client as root or make my user have sudo access with no password.

I decided to try the user be able to run sudo without a password to install packages. However the 'package' resource does not appear to have a way to tell it to run as a certain user. 

Is this true? Is there a way or am I stuck either running the client as root or using a bash command instead of the 'package' resource?

Thanks,

Tristan