On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Alban Peignier wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> By working on our bootstrap puppet scripts (executed wih standalone
> puppet), I found a difference between pipe and file parsing :
>
> A simple file with a content :
>
> $ cat withdollar.pp
> file { "/tmp/withdoller.txt":
> content => 'something like echo $1'
> }
>
> When puppet parses the file :
>
> $ puppet withdollar.pp
> notice: //File[/tmp/withdoller.txt]/content: created file with
> contents {md5}43f1e562200b79e68ebaf15cd956eaa3
>
> When puppet parses stdin :
>
> $ cat withdollar.pp | puppet
> Could not parse for environment production: Could not find value
> for $1
>
> I use "puppet pipes" to bootstrap servers, something like :
>
> cat manifests/bootstrap/newserver.pp | ssh newserver sudo puppet
>
> The workaround is simple (but longer) :
>
> cat manifests/bootstrap/newserver.pp | ssh newserver "cat - >
> /tmp/bootstrap.pp && sudo puppet /tmp/bootstrap.pp"
Wow, that's, um, wow. Kinda speechless.
Could it be related to shell quoting? I wouldn't think so, because I
don't think the shell interprets the stdout, but they should behave
exactly the same.
Could you file this as a bug?
>
> PS. May be my first message in this list, so : "mille mercis pour cet
> outil fantastique !" :-)
/me fails to dredge up rusty Français from college
Welcome to the community, and thanks. :)
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