[chef] Re: recipe executing shell command

[Matt Ray < >]

You may need to use the 'cwd' parameter for the execute.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Kelly Goedert 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a recipe that will make a silent install of a
> jdk1.5. The recipe is like this:
>
> remote_file "#{user_home}/install/jdk-1_5_0_22-linux-amd64.bin" do
>        source "http://10.1.1.6/files/jdk-1_5_0_22-linux-amd64.bin";
>        owner user_name
>    group user_name
>        mode "0777"
> end
>
> remote_file "#{user_home}/install/answerjdk5" do
>        source "http://10.1.1.6/files/answerjdk5";
>        owner user_name
>    group user_name
>        mode "0755"
> end
>
> execute "install_jdk5" do
>        command "#{user_home}/install/jdk-1_5_0_22-linux-amd64.bin <
> #{user_home}/install/answerjdk5 > /dev/null"
>        action :run
> end
>
>
>
> The files are downloaded correctly and if I execute the command
> manually it works fine. In the client log, everything seems to be ok.
> But the jdk folder is not created.
>
>
> INFO: Processing
> remote_file[/home/mee/install/jdk-1_5_0_22-linux-amd64.bin] action
> create (dev-env::default line 60)
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:38 -0200] INFO: Processing
> remote_file[/home/mee/install/answerjdk5] action create
> (dev-env::default line 67)
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:38 -0200] INFO: Processing
> execute[install_jdk5] action run (dev-env::default line 74)
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:38 -0200] INFO: execute[install_jdk5]
> sh(/home/mee/install/jdk-1_5_0_22-linux-amd64.bin <
> /home/mee/install/answerjdk5 > /dev/null)
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:40 -0200] INFO: execute[install_jdk5] ran 
> successfully
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:41 -0200] INFO: Chef Run complete in 6.528239 
> seconds
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:41 -0200] INFO: Running report handlers
> [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:11:41 -0200] INFO: Report handlers complete
>
>
> Can somebody help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kelly