[chef] Re: Re: script to change node's environment works in shef but not w/knife exec

[Bryan Berry < >]

hmm,

I see no error messages, none at all. I will look at this again

tks Steve

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Steven Danna 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Bryan Berry 
> <
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>  wrote:
>> This is very strange. Am I doing something that can't be accomplished
>> with knife exec?
>
> Do you get any error messages?  How are you determining that the
> environment isn't being changed?
>
>> query = ARGV[0]     # i type this in when using shef
>> new_environment = ARGV[1]
>
> On recent versions of Chef, this should be ARGV[2] and ARGV[3] as Ranjib 
> said.
>
>> my_nodes = search(:node, "#{query}")
>>
>> my_nodes.each do |n|
>>  n.chef_environment new_environment
>>  n.save
>> end
>>
>> exit 0
>
> I tested this basic script using Chef 0.10.8 and it worked as far as I
> could tell.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steven