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

[Christian Requena < >]

I don't think the approach with the groups will work. You need sudo to 
run rpm/yum, because of the rpm db.

--CR

On 12/08/2010 09:57 AM, Dreamcat4 wrote:
> 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<
>  >
>   wrote:
>    
> > 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
> >
> >
> >