[chef] Run as root or as vagrant user

[Mark H. Nichols < >]

I am creating a recipe to build JBoss AS 7.1.3 from source. The recipe works until the Maven build runs out of Java heap space. On the virtual machine I've set MAVEN_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS via a .bashrc file:

MAVEN_OPTS='-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m'

JAVA_OPTS='-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -noverify'

…

export MAVEN_OPTS JAVA_OPTS …

However these environment settings are for the 'vagrant' user on the VM and I suspect that the chef solo provisioner runs things as 'root'.

I tried adding an export of JAVA_OPTS and MAVEN_OPTS to the recipe to force the memory setting regardless of the active user:

… 

bash "mvn install -DskipTests" do

  code <<-EOH

  cd /home/vagrant/src/jbossas

  export MAVEN_OPTS='-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m'

  export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -noverify'

  /usr/local/maven3/bin/mvn install -DskipTests -Dcheckstyle.skip=true

  EOH

end

… 

But that too resulted in an "out of Java heap space" error.

Obviously I am missing something. How do I ensure that my recipe has the heap space it requires?

Thanks,

Mark Nichols