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

[Bryan Berry < >]

hmm, i think it works now, u guys were right about the arguments, I
missed that in the midst of multitasking confusion.  tks for taking
the time to test it.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Bryan Berry 
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> 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