[chef] Re: Re: recipe executing shell command

[Kelly Goedert < >]

Adding the cwd parameter solved the problem

Thanks

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Matt Ray 
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 wrote:
> 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