[chef] Re: Re: Running package install with sudo

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Christian Requena wrote:

> 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
> > ...

This is specific to the service resource, but you could certainly  
build your own provider (which would be 99% identical to the existing  
RPM provider) which uses sudo in the command.

--Noah