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

[AJ Christensen < >]

Why even try to find systems by what crontab they have? Surely this is
overcomplicating things.

Adjust the cron from a recipe. Run the recipe from a role. Search for
the system with the role... profit?

Regards,

--AJ

On 15 February 2012 11:45, andi abes 
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 wrote:
> 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 
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> 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 
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>>  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 
>> > <
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>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Alberts
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