[chef] RE: knife exit codes on windows?

[Adam Edwards < >]

What shell are you using – I’d like to be sure this repro’s on PowerShell – I tried this myself on PowerShell and was able to repro the problem, and would like to be sure you’re also seeing it there.

 

I can’t think of a workaround at the moment – I’ve filed the ticket below:

https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-450

 

-Adam

 

From: Brian Anderson [mailto: "> ]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 7:18 AM
To: ">
Subject: [chef] knife exit codes on windows?

 

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.  No matter what happens in the run, knife winrm always seems to return 0.

 

To demonstrate this I did a remote run of chef-client, calling an invalid override run list.

 

First on linux:

 

~ ]$ knife ssh -m linhost -x user -i key.pem "sudo chef-client --force-logger -l info -o recipe[nosuch::recipel]"
[...]
linhost [2014-02-10T09:57:56-05:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe fooszl for cookbook affdex
~ ]$ echo $?
1

 

 

Then Windows:

 

knife winrm -m winhost -x Administrator -P password "chef-client --force-logger -l info -o recipe[affdex::fooszl]"
[...]
winhost [2014-02-10T09:58:33-05:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe fooszl for cookbook affdex
~ ]$ echo $?
0

 

Then I tried using the --returns arg to knife winrm:

 

knife winrm --returns 0 -m winhost -x Administrator -P password "chef-client --force-logger -l info -o recipe[affdex::fooszl]"
[...]
winhost [2014-02-10T09:59:03-05:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound: could not find recipe fooszl for cookbook affdex
ERROR: Failed to execute command on winhost return code 1
~ ]$ echo $?
0

 

 

Is there some way that I am missing to get knife winrm to return 1 when the chef run fails, like knife ssh does?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Brian

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