[chef] Re: Re: Re: knife search weirdness. What am I doing wrong here?

[andi abes < >]

can you make your ohai plugin smarter in terms of parsing the cron lines, and split the timing info from the actual command?

if you produce something like:

[ { "timing": " * * * *" , "cmdline": "chef-client"... }  { ....} ]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:40 PM, John Alberts < "> > wrote:

Yeah, I think you are right.

Well, this kind of sucks. :(  It ruins my idea of trying to search for
a cronjob.  There is no way to actually have knife search that field.
I tried using '*chef' to match the chef-client line, but that returned
0 results as well.

Does anyone know if there is a way to match a substring in a value?

So if my key has a value "blah blah chef-client blah blah", I can find it?

John

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM, andi abes < "> > wrote:
> I think you can only use one * in a search term.
>
> knife search node "crontabs_root_all_lines:*chef
> or crontabs_root_all_lines:chef*" -a crontabs
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, John Alberts < "> >
> wrote:
>>
>> I wrote an ohai plugin that puts crontab data in node attributes.  The
>> idea was that I wanted to be able to use knife to search for servers
>> with particular cron jobs.  Unfortunately, knife search isn't
>> cooperating with me. :/
>>
>> You can see below that using a wildcard for search will return a
>> result, but specifying something that is obviously in the output below
>> yields no results.  Am I just getting the syntax wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> bash-3.2$ knife search node "hostname:dc02vg0039nr* AND
>> crontabs_root_all_lines:*" -a crontabs
>> 1 items found
>>
>> crontabs:
>>   root:
>>     all_lines:  # Chef Name: chef-client
>>
>> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>>                 SHELL=/bin/bash
>>                 36 * * * * /usr/local/bin/chef-client > /dev/null 2>&1
>>     crons:      ["36 * * * * /usr/local/bin/chef-client > /dev/null 2>&1"]
>> id:        dc02vg0039nr.internal
>>
>>
>>
>> bash-3.2$ knife search node "hostname:dc02vg0039nr* AND
>> crontabs_root_all_lines:*chef*" -a crontabs
>> 0 items found
>>
>>
>> O'RLY? WTF? :)
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>
>

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John Alberts