[chef] Re: RE: Re: group resource not creating the group

[Peter Norton < >]

You can probably get around this with a not_if clause, and keep the structure simple.  This should let it only run if directory services aren't available.  It could cause problems if the cookbook and the ldap server get out of sync if you use this a lot.

-Peter

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Van Fossan,Randy < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Turns out the same group exists in our ldap.   The local group needs to be there at build time and in case of an ldap failure.    I will have to bypass the chef group resource for now and mod the /etc/group file directory.  

 

Note: this isn’t a failure in chef, just the way we have implemented some groups.  L

 

Thanks

  Randy

 

From: Peter Norton [mailto: " target="_blank"> ]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:31 PM
To: " target="_blank">
Subject: [chef] Re: group resource not creating the group

 

Do you have some directory services (e.g. openldap, NIS, AD) that already has this group created?  If so and if your new node doesn't have admin rights, you're going to get this.

 

-Peter

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Van Fossan,Randy < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Does anyone know why the group resource would not create the group.   The error keeps coming back saying groupmod cannot find the group.    I would have thought that it would have used groupadd.

 

Here is the snippet from the recipe..

group "abc123" do

  gid 405

  action :create

end

error -> line 55) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: groupmod userroot returned 10, expected 0  

 

Error 10 says group does not exist, well I am trying to create it.   What am I doing wrong.??

 

Randy