Server recipe execution

Hi

I’m trying to configure motd for my servers based on their hostnames. I would
like to put output of figlet #{node[:hostname]} in to /etc/motd. I would
also like to have a figlet program installed only on chef server. Is there any
way that chef server can “compute” figlet and then use it as a variable to the
client?

As far as I know all recipes, attributes and templates are ran on client side
:frowning:

Thanks for any reply,
ares

Ohai there!

The Chef server goes to great trouble to not run any outside code,
for security and stability reasons. So you'll need a hack-ier
solution, I'm afraid.

If you're running chef-client on your chef server, you can probably
use a combination of searching and file specificity[1] to generate the
results of the commands as remote files. Then you'd just use a remote
file resource to install them on each host.

Of course, if there's some way you can do this as a template instead,
that'd be much easier.

HTH,
Dan DeLeo

[1] http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Files#Files-FileSpecificity

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Ares ares@igloonet.com wrote:

Hi

I'm trying to configure motd for my servers based on their hostnames. I would
like to put output of figlet #{node[:hostname]} in to /etc/motd. I would
also like to have a figlet program installed only on chef server. Is there any
way that chef server can "compute" figlet and then use it as a variable to the
client?

As far as I know all recipes, attributes and templates are ran on client side
:frowning:

Thanks for any reply,
ares