[chef] Re: What is the best way to change a field of a conf file in centos

[Christopher Armstrong < >]

There is a cookbook for managing sysctl: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/sysctl

You best bet is to depend on and include that cookbook, and then either use node.default['sysctl']['params']['net']['ipv4']['ip_nonlocal_bind'] = 1

or the LWRP:

sysctl_param 'net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind' do
  value 1
end

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Sam Su < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to change a field (here is "net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1") of the file /etc/sysctl.conf, currently I am using template to change the field, however someone complained that it was not good to template the system file ''sysctl.conf', because it may also used by other cookbooks. I agreed with that guy, it is definitely better to only change a specific field instead of the whole file with respect to a system file.

I am wondering what is the best way to change a specific field of a config file in Chef.
It will be much appreciated if someone can give me some hints and share some opinions.

Thanks,

Sam