[chef] RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Use template or cookbook_file resources to put something in a user's home directory?

[Stephen Corbesero < >]

It worked, but I wonder if compile time is too soon.

If this is part of the first run of a chef-client, that user would not exist 
at the beginning of the run.

Do all the recipes get compiled before any of them start executing?


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Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Moser, Kevin 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 11:35 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Re: Use template or cookbook_file resources to 
put something in a user's home directory?

Yup, you should be able to, assuming at the time of compile that the user 
exists.  As this code would get executed at compile time.

On 1/7/14 8:32 AM, "Stephen Corbesero" 
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>Can I put that in the name of a resource?
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>For example,
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>cookbook_file "#{Dir.home(someuser)}/xyzzy" do
>  ...
>End
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>--
>Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Moser, Kevin 
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>Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 11:27 AM
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>Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Use template or cookbook_file resources to put 
>something in a user's home directory?
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>Dir.home will give you the current users home directory.
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>Dir.home(user) will give you the home directory of the user specified
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>On 1/7/14 8:24 AM, "Julian C. Dunn" 
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>>On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Stephen Corbesero 
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>> wrote:
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>>> Is there any way to use the template and cookbook_file resources to 
>>>put  files in or under a user¹s home directory without hardcoding the 
>>>directory  as ³/home/username²?
>>>
>>> Is there some way to get the chef-client to interpret ~username like 
>>> the shell does?
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>>I think File.expand_path should do it?
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>>irb(main):002:0> File.expand_path('~juliandunn') => "/Users/juliandunn"
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>>- Julian
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