[chef] Re: Why will chef not read a file in a template?

[Denis Barishev < >]

Is it okay

that you use single quotes, the value won't be substituted...

Regards,
Dennis

On 22/02/14 18:19, David Montgomery wrote:
> What is the deal with chef and trying to read a file?  I mean..the 
> file is there.  The below is in a template.
>
>
>  discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: 
> <%=File.read('#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/unicast_hosts')%>
>
> ls -al /var/chef/cache/
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root        19 Feb 22 06:05 unicast_hosts
>
> And yes #{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]} = /var/chef/cache/
>
>
>
> [2014-02-22T06:15:12-05:00] INFO: Sending resource update report 
> (run-id: e5f200ea-5d0b-4652-b02a-3b836357ca5b)
> [2014-02-22T06:15:12-05:00] ERROR:
>
> Chef::Mixin::Template::TemplateError (No such file or directory - 
> #{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/unicast_hosts) on line #327:
>
> 325:
> 326:
> 327: discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: 
> <%=File.read('#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/unicast_hosts')%>
> 328:
> 329: