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

[Dreamcat4 < >]

Another thing you can try is to make /usr group writable to the
"admin" group. And add your user on the admin group. Then installing
packages without sudo. The initial chowning of directories will
require sudo however.

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Noah Kantrowitz 
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 wrote:
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> 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
>
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