[chef] Re: Run as root or as vagrant user

[AJ Christensen < >]

Try the 'environment' parameter to the bash script resource (it's
actually from the Execute resource, but this inherits that)

bash 'foo' do
  environment 'MAVEN_OPTS' => '-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m'
end

etc.

Maybe consider structuring it a little different as well? Write a
shell script or similar, included in your code-base which wraps your
'mvn install', then just run that from Chef. That way you can re-run
or developers could run it if you're hooning around by hand anyway.
Just a thought :)

--AJ

On 11 May 2013 10:38, Mark H. Nichols 
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 >
 wrote:
> 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