[chef] Re: Re: Re: using variables in recipes?

[Joe Nuspl < >]

You can also try “#{ENV[‘HOSTNAME’]}”.

        Joe

On Apr 27, 2014, at 8:27 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski 
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 wrote:

> Unfortunately doesn't work as expected.
> 
> This is the output of $HOSTNAME on this server:
> 
> $ echo $HOSTNAME
> server.example.com
> 
> In the recipe, "#{node['hostname']}" gives me just "server" (so, without 
> ".example.com" I'm getting from $HOSTNAME variable).
> 
> "#{node['fqdn']}" gives me "localhost", and "#{node['domain']}" is empty.
> 
> 
> Are there any other ways to get a variable to be used in a recipe (putting 
> aside whether the fqdn should be localhost or not)?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org
> 
> 
> On 2014-04-28 04:04, Wolfe, Eric G wrote:
>> You can interpolate the ohai hostname attribute like so: 
>> "#{node['hostname']}"
>> Tomasz Chmielewski 
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>>  wrote:
>> How can I use the $HOSTNAME variable in a recipe?
>> I need something which would fit here:
>> remote_file "/tmp/$HOSTNAME.tar.xz" do
>>   source 
>> "https://user:
 :port/aaa/$HOSTNAME.tar.xz"
>>   owner "root"
>>   group "root"
>>   mode 00600
>>   not_if { ::File.exists?("/some/path/here") }
>> end
>> --
>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>> http://wpkg.org
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