[chef] Re: Re: Problems with Tomcat cookbook

[Stefán Freyr Stefánsson < >]

Hey Sean.

That's very interesting news. Do you have any estimation on the time for 
that? Unfortunately we're dealing with a rather time sensitive deployment so 
I'm trying to figure out how much effort to spend on trying to fix this issue 
with the current Tomcat cookbook.

-Stefan Freyr.

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From: Sean OMeara 
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 4:56 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Problems with Tomcat cookbook

Hi.

We're going to rewrite this soon. Stay tuned.

-s

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Stefán Freyr Stefánsson
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 wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> We're using the Tomcat cookbook which is stored in the opscode github
> account.
>
>
> Well, actually we are using our own fork of that in which we've applied some
> of the numerous outstanding pull requests.
>
>
> So this brings me to my question. It seems that the Opscode Tomcat cookbook
> (https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/tomcat) isn't getting a lot of
> attention. It has 33 open pull requests, some of which make perfect sense
> (at least to me) but they don't even have a comment on them regarding
> whether they'll get merged or not.
>
>
> There is still _some_ activity. A pull request was merged a month ago so
> it's not totally dead.
>
>
> I also found an email on this list from last August about an organized hack
> session (http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2014-08/msg00026.html)
> although it has no replies and I don't know what came out of that.
>
>
> Right now we're working on setting up a non-standard instance of tomcat
> through this recipe and it's not really going great.
>
>
> I've set the default["tomcat"]["run_base_instance"] attribute to false and
> I've added a block with our own Tomcat instance. However, the recipe fails
> when trying to configure Tomcat with the following error:
>
>
> ================================================================================
>            Error executing action `create` on resource
> 'link[/usr/share/tomcat/bin]'
>
> ================================================================================
>
>            Errno::EISDIR
>            -------------
>            Is a directory - /usr/share/tomcat/bin
>
>            Resource Declaration:
>            ---------------------
>            # In /tmp/kitchen/cookbooks/tomcat/providers/instance.rb
>
>             74:       link "#{new_resource.base}/#{dir}" do
>             75:         to "#{node['tomcat']['base']}/#{dir}"
>             76:       end
>             77:     end
>
>            Compiled Resource:
>            ------------------
>            # Declared in
> /tmp/kitchen/cookbooks/tomcat/providers/instance.rb:74:in `block (2 levels)
> in class_from_file'
>
>            link("/usr/share/tomcat/bin") do
>              provider Chef::Provider::Link
>              action :create
>              retries 0
>              retry_delay 2
>              guard_interpreter :default
>              to "/usr/share/tomcat/bin"
>              link_type :symbolic
>              target_file "/usr/share/tomcat/bin"
>              cookbook_name :tomcat
>            end
>
> It looks like the cookbook is trying to create a link
> (/usr/share/tomcat/bin) which points to itself. Not only that, but the
> location already exists as a directory so even if it were pointing to
> something that made sense, it wouldn't be able to create it as it already
> exists.
>
> I'll try to create a self-contained example demonstrating the problem using
> Test Kitchen, but in the meantime, if anybody knows what's going on here I'd
> appreciate any help with this.
>
> -Stefan Freyr.
>
>