[chef] Re: Re: Printing command output

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Friday, November 21, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Bryan Baugher wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Whats the easiest way to print command output while its running? I've 
>> found older mailing list questions about this and things on SO but they 
>> mostly point to setting chef logging to debug which is not what I want. I 
>> would like to always print the output for this particular command as it 
>> often takes awhile to run and has valuable information.
>> 
>> Bryan  
> Setting the log level to info or debug is the only way currently: 
> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/346aff0078a676d8c05319c017b891184426d004/lib/chef/provider/execute.rb#L55-L57
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> It wouldn’t be too difficult to write a patch to let you toggle that 
> yourself, if you’re interested. It would also be pretty easy to write your 
> own variant of the execute resource that always sets a live stream.

You could use ruby_block resources before and after the execute to set/reset 
the log level I think.

--Noah

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