[chef] Re: Re: setting file permssions in the execution phase

[Rob Curtis < >]

I had a similar situation back in October (if you feel like going through the mailing list archives).  As Dennis said, a ruby_block resource is the way to go.  I ended up doing something like the following:

 

### BEGIN CODE ###

 

# Gotta set up the run context in order to create chef resources inside a ruby_block

@events = Chef::EventDispatch::Dispatcher.new()

run_context = Chef::RunContext.new( node, @events )

 

# For each directory that has files you want to update

[ '/directory/with/files/you/want/to/update/*', '/another/directory/with/files/*'].each do |dir}

  ruby_block "update #{dir}" do

    action :create

    block do

      Dir[ "#{dir}" ].each do |path|

        if File.file?(path)

          curr_file = Chef::Resource::File.new( path, run_context )

          curr_file.owner "foo"

          curr_file.group "bar"

          curr_file.mode "0640"

          curr_file.run_action :create

        end

      end

    end

  end

end

### END CODE ###

 

Hope this makes sense.

 

-Rob

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Dennis Benzinger < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hello Richard,

I'm new to Chef myself but I think you should use a ruby_block resource.
See http://docs.opscode.com/resource_ruby_block.html for details.


Hope this helps,
Dennis Benzinger | hybris

On 11.02.2014 10:24, Richard Murray wrote:

Hi I'm quite new to Chef and I'm struggling to set some file permissions using the following cookbook.  I'm using 'ark' to install Tomcat (I know there is a 'Tomcat' cookbook however this always pulls in the OpenJDK and I want to use Oracle's JDK).

The .tar.gz file is extracted OK however I'm unable to start Tomcat as the permissions in /usr/local/tomcat/conf have restricted permissions (read and write permissions for the file owner only).

I have tried using the Chef 'file' and 'directory' resources to update the permissions but these don't seem to have any effect.  Does the code below update permissons in the compile phase or the execution phase?  If so what is the correct way to do this (to update permissions after the ark action has executed).

ark "tomcat" do

   url 'http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.50/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.50.tar.gz'

   mode 0755

   #version '2.2.0'

   # test this checksum works...

   #checksum '18688f15ade6aa1aff510ff1b5990979 *apache-tomcat-7.0.50.zip'

   #try adding path attribute...

   action :install

end

 

#["/usr/local/tomcat/logs", "/usr/local/tomcat/conf"].each do | path | 

# directory path do

# mode 0777

# recursive true

# end 

#end

#update permissons on tomcat conf files..

Dir[ "/usr/local/tomcat/conf/**" ].each do |path|

  file path do

    mode "0755"

action :touch

  end 

end

Thanks, 

Richard.

Dennis Benzinger
Platform Automation Engineer
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