[chef] Re: Re: WARNING for JBoss AS7 users

[Walter Heck < >]

I'm from the puppet-world and totally just lurking here (so forgive me
if I'm blabbering :) ), but for Puppet there is augeas, which is a
standalone tool that can parse configuration files into machine
readable trees. This allows you to change/check the value of a
configuration parameter unrelated to where in the config file it
actually is. If i'm not mistaking this should solve your problem if
you can find a way to use it in Chef? http://augeas.net/

Hope this helps!

Walter Heck

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Peter Donald 
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 wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Bryan Berry 
> <
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>  wrote:
>> If you use JBoss AS 7.1.1 along with Chef, you should know that JBoss AS 7
>> will change the contents of your main XML configuration file on disk by
>> removing comments, adding or removing line breaks, and reordering
>> attributes.
>>
>> If you have a jboss service resource that subscribes to that config file, 
>> it
>> will detect that the file and has changed and restart the service on every
>> chef-client run. I found this out the hard way
>
> This seems to be a problem that afflicts multiple java application
> servers. In the glassfish space, both the message broker ad the
> application server can rewrite their configuration files. I have had
> to go to some lengths to parse the configuration files and check for
> the values I want to specify as part of a resources guard. Have you
> found a better way to do this?
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald



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