These errors that you report was due to bad formatting of the text when
posted.
But thanks for the tips.
2011/6/22 jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>
>
>
> On Jun 20, 5:15 pm, "lucas.brig...@ymail.com" <grillobri...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I actually posted about the problem with "tar".
> > I decided to modify the module to not depend on "tar" installed.
> >
> > But I realized that any command that has parameters to run, the same
> problem
> > occurswhen using this command:
> >
> > exec {"$ tar-vzxf downdir} {wordpress.tar.gz"
> > path => ["/ usr / local / bin", "/ opt / local / bin",
> "/
> > usr / bin", "/ usr / sbin"]
> > }
>
>
> The path in that command is broken: there should be no whitespace
> around the slashes. That could easily be enough to make the Exec
> fail. Beyond the whitespace problem, that path also does not contain
> the standard (LSB) location of the tar command (/bin), which would
> certainly make the Exec fail if you do not have a copy of tar or a
> link to it in one of the directories you do specify. On the third
> hand, the code you posted contains at least two syntax errors, so who
> knows what you're really using.
>
>
> > But when I run for example:
> > exec {"ps"}
> >
> > The error did not occur previously posted.
>
>
> Here you are relying on the default path provided by Puppet, which is
> not documented to work. The docs say that you should either use a
> fully-qualified command (e.g. "/bin/ps") or specify a search path that
> can resolve the command (e.g. [ "/bin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/usr/
> sbin" ]; note no whitespace in the directory names). I don't know
> what Puppet provides as a default, but it must include "/bin".
>
>
> John
>
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