On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 08:51:55AM -0500, Adam Goucher wrote:
> On 2012-12-31 7:21 AM, Sivaraman Viswanathan wrote:
> >
> >Hello All,
> >
> >I have written a manifest which will upgrade the JAVA to a recent
> >version (ex: JDK 6u33 to JDK7) using exec type. The installation
> >is nothing but untarring the tar.gz file into a predefined folder
> >and setting the JAVA_HOME and PATH variables in the user's
> >bash_profile file.
> >
> >1. Now I have to upgrade around 30 servers. Is there anyway that I
> >can apply these manifests into the nodes from puppet master
> >itself?
> >   Many of the examples that I found says that we have to login to
> >the node and execute the command puppet agent update command. But
> >doing this in all the managed nodes is tedious.
> >   Is there an easy way to accomplish this?
> You could set up the agent to poll the master periodically.
> >
> >2. The bash_profile contains other text in them. How can we append
> >these new variables (JAVA_HOME) into the existing file without
> >changing the other parts of the file?
> What I would look at is creating a .java_settings file that sets
> your JAVA_* and have that sourced from the .profile. That way you
> could have puppet manage that file in its entirety and not the
> user's .profile.
> 
> -adam

Yep

You can also use the /etc/profile.d directory which is sourced in
/etc/profile at least on Arch and Ubuntu.

Best, Nikola

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