Let me try to be more precise.
Iâm reusing the simple_iptables community cookbook. That cookbook has a template that it uses to create the actual iptables configuration file. If I âknife cookbook upload simple_iptablesâ from a Windows machine
and then use its LWRP from my cookbook (which has no templates of its own) the resulting iptables configuration file ends up with DOS newlines.
It seems like Chef should alter the type of newlines when a node is converged so that if you are converging a Linux box you get LF and a Windows box you get CR-LF.
From: Adam Edwards [mailto:
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Subject: [chef] RE: Newlines in templates
Joshua, which file has the DOS newlines â are you saying a template file in the simple_iptables cookbook has it? Or is the issue that your editor is doing DOS style newlines?
If itâs the latter, I think the simplest thing is to just configure the editor to do Unix line-endings. I get that that can still be challenging if there are multiple people working on these things and you need
to enforce Unix-line endings for everyone.
-Adam
From: THARP, JOSHUA L [mailto:
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Subject: [chef] Newlines in templates
Iâm reusing the simple_iptables cookbook and working on a Windows PC for my workstation. My rules file is failing when I converge the node, and it tries to restart iptables. The problem seems to be the newlines in the file are DOS. For
my own cookbooks I can set the newlines to always be UNIX, but I donât want to edit a community cookbook. Is there a Chef/knife trick for ensuring that the template newlines are platform appropriate?