[chef] Re: Re: Issues with Locale on Remote Client Node when running knife ssh: chef-client for Ubuntu 12.04 and chef 10 or chef 11

[AJ Christensen < >]

Use the 'environment' parameter to the execute resource to set
environment variables, i.e;

execute 'locale'
  environment 'LC_CTYPE' => 'en_US.UTF-8'
  command 'locale | tee /tmp/locale.txt'
end

Cheers,

AJ

On 27 April 2013 09:59, Harry Yeh 
<
 >
 wrote:
>
> Tried thia
>
> execute "locale" do
>   command "
>   LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>   locale >> /tmp/locale.txt"
> end
>
>
> that even shows up as
>
> LC_CTYPE=C
>
> You can try it
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:27 AM, 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> Currently I'm using chef 11 (just upgraded, hoping the problem would go
>> away
>> but it hasn't!)
>>
>> So here's my problem.
>>
>> When I type the command "locale" on my ubuntu machine the default output I
>> get
>> is the following:
>>
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=
>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_ALL=
>>
>> Assume that I have a cook book that will write a locale to a temp file in
>> a
>> recipe and cookbook
>>
>> knife node run_list add server1 recipe[writelocale]
>>
>> the following is the contents of the recipe/writelocale.rb
>>
>> execute "locale" do
>>   command "locale >> /tmp/locale.txt"
>> end
>>
>>
>> When I run this command
>>
>> knife ssh name:server1 -x root -P password1 -a ipaddress "sudo -i
>> chef-client"
>>
>> to run a recipe remotely I always end up with this.
>>
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=
>> LC_CTYPE="C"
>> LC_NUMERIC="C"
>> LC_TIME="C"
>> LC_COLLATE="C"
>> LC_MONETARY="C"
>> LC_MESSAGES="C"
>> LC_PAPER="C"
>> LC_NAME="C"
>> LC_ADDRESS="C"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="C"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
>> LC_ALL=
>>
>> I'm guessing it has something to do with the shell or how chef-server is
>> causing the remote ssh shell to execute. I only thing I can think of there
>> is
>> some chef process whether it's RabbitMQ or something else that is changing
>> the
>> default shell locale to C vs UTT-8. I've tried numerous things, including
>> trying to set the LC_TYPE="en_US.UTF-8" but I can't seem to do it, the
>> locale
>> always default to C. This is particularly a problem when I try to install
>> things like Postgresql, since I end up with the following instead of what
>> I
>> actually need.
>>
>> What I should See
>>
>>   List of databases
>>    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |   Access
>> privileges
>>
>> -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
>>  postgres  | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>>  template0 | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
>>     +
>>            |          |          |             |             |
>> postgres=CTc/postgres
>>  template1 | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
>>     +
>>            |          |          |             |             |
>> postgres=CTc/postgres
>>
>>
>> When I remote and run apt-get install -y postgresql-server-dev-9.1
>>
>>                            List of databases
>>    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding  | Collate | Ctype |   Access privileges
>>
>> -----------+----------+-----------+---------+-------+-----------------------
>>  postgres  | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     |
>>  template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     | =c/postgres
>> +
>>            |          |           |         |       |
>> postgres=CTc/postgres
>>  template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     | =c/postgres
>> +
>>            |          |           |         |       |
>> postgres=CTc/postgres
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been stuck on this issue for a few days now seems trivial at first
>> but
>> it's become and issue since it affects what packages I can install with
>> the
>> Proper Locale.
>>
>> Please help thanks!
>
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>
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