[chef] Re: only_if interpretation

[Eric Herot < >]

By wrapping the quotes in braces, you have created a ruby block, so you are only testing the creation of a string, rather than the evaluation of a command:

http://docs.opscode.com/resource_common.html#guards

You want:

    only_if "ls -l /bin/sh | grep dash"

On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Cyril Scetbon < "> > wrote:

Hello,

Can anyone explain me why this ""execute" runs ?

execute "dash" do
  command "echo dash"
  only_if { "ls -l /bin/sh|grep dash" }
end

[2014-01-21T18:53:13+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
[2014-01-21T18:53:13+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.8.2 ***
[2014-01-21T18:53:13+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 1656
[2014-01-21T18:53:15+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[cassandra::test]"] from JSON
[2014-01-21T18:53:15+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[cassandra::test]]
[2014-01-21T18:53:15+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [cassandra::test]
[2014-01-21T18:53:15+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for vagrant
[2014-01-21T18:53:15+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2014-01-21T18:53:15+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2014-01-21T18:53:18+00:00] INFO: execute[dash] ran successfully
[2014-01-21T18:53:18+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 2.304952258 seconds
[2014-01-21T18:53:18+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2014-01-21T18:53:18+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
[2014-01-21T18:53:13+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...

$ ls -l /bin/sh|grep dash
:~$ echo $?
1

I can prevent it from running with a not_if statement, but I don't understand why the previous only_if doesn't work :

execute "dash" do
  command "echo dash"
  not_if { "ls -l /bin/sh|grep bash" }
end

[2014-01-21T18:56:12+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
[2014-01-21T18:56:12+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.8.2 ***
[2014-01-21T18:56:12+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 2342
[2014-01-21T18:56:14+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[cassandra::test]"] from JSON
[2014-01-21T18:56:14+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[cassandra::test]]
[2014-01-21T18:56:14+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [cassandra::test]
[2014-01-21T18:56:14+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for vagrant
[2014-01-21T18:56:14+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2014-01-21T18:56:14+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2014-01-21T18:56:16+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 1.273026178 seconds
[2014-01-21T18:56:16+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2014-01-21T18:56:16+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
[2014-01-21T18:56:12+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...

$ ls -l /bin/sh|grep bash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 21 17:39 /bin/sh -> bash
$ echo $?
0

Is there anything wrong in my only_if statement that make it runs while it shouldn't ?

Thanks

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Cyril SCETBON