Using vars inside commands

[André Luís Lopes]

Hello,

   I just wanted to double-check with you guys if using a var inside a command really doesn't work in CFEngine3.

   Example :

vars:

    "java_binary" string => execresult("/bin/ls -l /usr/java/*/bin/java | /usr/bin/awk '{print $9}' | /bin/sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/,/g'", "useshell");

    "java_binary_list" slist => splitstring("$(java_binary_list)",",","20");

commands:

   "/sbin/paxctl -C $(java_binary_list)";

   The java_binary_list slist var is being populated with the content I want it to be populated with just fine.

   Additionally, I would like to be able to use it under the commands section. When running cf-agent manually in verbose mode, I can see that a string $(java_binary_list) is being passed to the to the /sbin/paxctl binary instead of each value of the java_binary_list var (using implicit loop).

cf3>  -> Executing '/sbin/paxctl -C $(java_binary_list)' ...(timeout=-678,owner=-1,group=-1)

cf3>  !! Finished command related to promiser "/sbin/paxctl -C $(java_binary_list)" -- an error occurred (returned 1)

   Is it true that a var can't really be used like this, inside a command in the commands section ?

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[Diego Zamboni]

That should work fine. Are you sure the list is being properly populated? 

--Diego

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[André Luís Lopes]

Hello,

2012/9/12 Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsalo...@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Diego Zamboni <di...@zzamboni.org> wrote:
> That should work fine. Are you sure the list is being properly populated?

Check with:

reports:
  cfengine_3::
      "$(java_binary_list)";

   It was way a result of way too little coffee on my blood. Wrong snippet :

"java_binary_list" slist => splitstring("$(java_binary_list)",",","20");

   Fixed snippet :

"java_binary_list" slist => splitstring("$(java_binary)",",","20");

   My bad. Fixed and now it's working. Thanks everyone :-)

[Aleksey Tsalolikhin]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Diego Zamboni <di...@zzamboni.org> wrote:

> That should work fine. Are you sure the list is being properly populated?