[chef] Re: Why am I getting this error from net-scp?

[Steven Danna < >]

Hi,

As a quick followup, if you wanted to avoid shelling out, you could do
something like:

   Dir.glob('/full/path/to/dir/*.xml').sort.last

Cheers,

Steven

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Steven Danna 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>       source    = cmd.stdout
>
> My guess is your output has a newline attached to it.  Since newlines
> are valid characters in filenames, there is no reason for this to
> raise an error before the file can't be found.  Try:
>
>     source = cmd.stdout.chomp
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steven
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Brad Knowles 
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>  wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> So, I'm doing some compliance work for a customer (not PCI, but similar), 
>> and one thing we decided was to use scp to upload and download large files 
>> from a central fileserver.  This way we don't have to worry about opening 
>> any more holes in firewalls (because ssh already has to be open), no 
>> additional Pandoras Boxes, etc....
>>
>> The download works fine.  But when I'm trying to upload the results of the 
>> scan, it bombs out.  The weird thing is that the code uses 
>> Mixlib::ShellOut to go find the file in question just a few lines above, 
>> but then Net:Scp craps out.
>>
>> A slice of logs showing the error message is at 
>> <http://pastebin.com/YXPu4TKS>.
>>
>> I haven't done the Windows side of the code yet, but the Linux part of the 
>> code for this section looks like this:
>>
>> if platform_family?("rhel")
>>   ruby_block 'find-and-upload-ciscat-results' do
>>     block do
>>       require 'mixlib/shellout'
>>       require 'net/scp'
>>       cmd       = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("find #{resdir} -name '*.xml' | 
>> sort | tail -1")
>>       cmd.run_command
>>       cmd.error!
>>       source    = cmd.stdout
>>       Chef::Log.debug("Uploading source file #{source} to 
>> 
 :#{target}")
>>       Net::SCP.upload!(host, user, source, target, :ssh => { :password => 
>> pass })
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>> # elsif platform_family?("windows")
>> end
>>
>>
>> Am I doing something incredibly stupid here?
>>
>> --
>> Brad Knowles 
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