I apologise, and have though this through, and it was a silly question. This isn't a Puppet problem at all. And sorry for the horrible script. Got a much nicer one now (using defines).
Sorry for the noise. Tim ps: - I can either modify the startup service script - add the var to /etc/environment - add the var to a /etc/profile.d/ file Just making sure to notify the Service afterwards. (or reboot maybe for /etc/environment) On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 9:08:28 PM UTC+1, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have been searching around for a few hours now, but don't seem to be > using the correct search terms for the answer I need. So please forgive me > if this is a question that has been answered 100 times :( I have seen many > questions regarding enviroment variables, but non seem to be related. > Again, I may be misunderstanding the vocabulary) > > I am setting up > SCM-Manager<https://bitbucket.org/sdorra/scm-manager/wiki/Home>(GIT/Mercurial > tomcat server). It does the job for development. > > However, SCM-Manager requires the environment variable "SCM_HOME" to be > set to save the files to. I understand that a Puppet agent executes with a > minimal shell. How can I make Puppet aware of this var? > > This <https://bitbucket.org/sdorra/scm-manager/wiki/faq> page does offer > a couple of other options (I know it offers a 3rd option, to modify the > properties file, but this seems a little like cheating). The other option I > tried was to add a "-DSCM_HOME=/myhome" to the start up script for tomcat, > but I don't really understand how it works, and how I would do this. The > key seems to be *hiera. *But I'm unsure exactly how this works, and given > the Tomcat and Java modules I'm using. > > My modules are: > seteam-tomcat <https://github.com/puppetlabs-seteam/puppet-module-tomcat> for > tomcat > this requires > puppetlabs-java <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java> > and this itself requires > puppetlabs/stdlib <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib> > > My code seems rather simple (I know I'm probably doing dependencies > completely wrong, but I'm just starting to be able to write me own scripts). > init.pp (running inside a Vagrant box for ease) > > class initscm { >> >> include tomcat >> >> tomcat::war {'scm': >> >> source => '/vagrant/software/war/scm-webapp-1.32.war', >> >> } >> >> >>> } >> >> >>> exec { "apt-get update": >> >> path => "/usr/bin", >> >> } -> >> >> group { "puppet": >> >> ensure => "present", >> >> } >> >> file { '/etc/environment': >> >> content => 'SCM_HOME=/vagrant/scm-data' >> >> } >> >> >>> >>> >>> class {'initscm':} >> >> >>> # Make sure that we update apt before getting the java package >> >> Exec['apt-get update'] -> Package['java'] >> >> Service['tomcat'] -> File['/etc/environment'] >> >> >> > Many thanks for your time, > Tim > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
