Support #12276
closed
backslash in hash smart variable value craches puppet
Description
Hi
I've got a hash which defines sudoers entry. The command contains a : so it must be despacialized for sudo. My hash looks like this :
command:
- "/usr/bin/php app/console cron\\:run"
But when I run puppet on the client I've got the error :
Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed when searching for node lyldsvi33.intranet.atih.sante.fr: Could not load external node results for lyldsvi33.intranet.atih.sante.fr: (<unknown>): found unknown escape character :(58) while scanning a double-quoted scalar at line 574 column 50
Which matches the first backslash of my string.
Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
Try adding another level of escaping:
command: - "/usr/bin/php app/console cron\\\\:run"
Testing on the console, YAML is able to parse that and what ought to be passed through to Puppet is then the string:
/usr/bin/php app/console cron\:run
Updated by Brice Sauvajon over 8 years ago
Thanks,
tried it but still the same error which points to the first backslash.
I watched the output of the node.rb with your suggestion and saw only one backslash, so I added two more backslashes and now it works !
So my hash has become :
command:
- "/usr/bin/php app/console cron\\\\\\:run"
Seems strange, but works ok, thanks a lot!
Updated by Anonymous about 7 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Support
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved