[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Inserting multiple lines through Chef::Util::FileEdit

[Sean OMeara < >]

Hontestly, these libs are in a need of some love.
I have some "file a ticket" tasks in my GTD that I plan to get around to soon.
-s

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Oleg Volotov 
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 wrote:
> The methode 'insert_line_if_no_match(...)' calls only the private one 
> 'search_match(...)' with the right parameters. This methode makes his 
> changes only in the variable 'contents'. Try to make a 'f.write_file' after 
> every call of 'insert_line_if_no_match(...)'.
>
>> About the mount resource:
>> This was some time ago, but I couldn't get the mount resource to create an
>> fstab entry. My action is "action [:mount, :enable]", but it doesn't seem
>> to do anything to the fstab. I haven't tried to debug it in a while, I'll
>> dig into it and see what was the problem that led me to use FileEdit.
>>
>> If it helps, what I'm mounting is an amazon EBS volume with non-default
>> formatting (xfs), attached to my instance during runtime by the right-aws
>> gem.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Jesse Nelson 
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>>
>> > Is it not possible to use the mount resource to manage these entries in
>> > your fstab ?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Joseph Bowman
>> <
 >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've had to do this a lot recently starting to set up our base builds
>> as
>> >> we move to chef. I've just used embedded bash scripts to get the
>> results
>> >> I've needed. This is just taking an example from you original email,
>> please
>> >> check for typos and such before using it. I wrote it out in this email,
>> so
>> >> it's completely untested.
>> >>
>> >> bash "update_fstab" do
>> >>   code <<-EOH
>> >>     EBS_VOL_DEV_CHECK = $(grep '#{node['mysql']['ebs_vol_dev']} /'
>> >> /etc/fstab | wc -l)
>> >>     if [ $EBS_VOL_DEV_CHECK -lt 0 ]; then
>> >>       echo '#{node['mysql']['ebs_vol_dev']}
>> >> #{node['mysql']['mount_point']} #{node['mysql']['formatting']} noatime
>> 0 0'
>> >> >> /ec/fstab
>> >>     fi
>> >>   EOH
>> >> end
>> >>
>> >> You'd want to update the code block for each instance. I used this to
>> >> manage files fstab, hosts and such. Albeit I'm much more comfortable
>> with
>> >> bash than ruby.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Pete Cheslock
>> <
 >wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Ive never used fileedit before. You should just use a template to
>> render
>> >>> out the file as you need.  It will likely solve your problem.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Prajwal Manjunath 
>> >>> <
 >
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I'm trying to use the FileEdit util to modify my fstab, but it
>> doesn't
>> >>> seem to work as expected.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > This is essentially my code:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >   ruby_block "setup fstab" do
>> >>> >     not_if "cat /etc/fstab | grep #{node['mysql']['mount_point']} >
>> >>> /dev/null"
>> >>> >     block do
>> >>> >       f = Chef::Util::FileEdit.new('/etc/fstab')
>> >>> >       f.insert_line_if_no_match(/^#{node['mysql']['ebs_vol_dev']} /,
>> >>> "#{node['mysql']['ebs_vol_dev']} #{node['mysql']['mount_point']}
>> >>> #{node['mysql']['formatting']} noatime 0 0")
>> >>> >       f.insert_line_if_no_match(/^#{node['mysql']['ebs_data_dir']}
>> /,
>> >>> "#{node['mysql']['ebs_data_dir']} #{node['mysql']['data_dir']} none
>> bind")
>> >>> >       f.insert_line_if_no_match(/^#{node['mysql']['ebs_binlog_dir']}
>> >>> /, "#{node['mysql']['ebs_binlog_dir']} #{node['mysql']['data_dir']}
>> none
>> >>> bind")
>> >>> >       f.write_file
>> >>> >     end
>> >>> >     notifies :run, "execute[mount_all]", :immediately
>> >>> >   end
>> >>> >
>> >>> > However, this only adds the first insert_line_if_no_match into the
>> >>> file. I confirmed this by removing the first command and it inserted
>> the
>> >>> second one.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Is this by design? Am I really not supposed to run multiple
>> >>> insert_line_if_no_match commands in one block on one file?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >