Jason’s postings and stuff

It is somewhat of a challenge to obtain interface information out of the data Ohai makes available for network interfaces. For information only about inet addresses, the following works: node_addresses = {} node[:network][:interfaces].each do |iface, vals| vals[:addresses].each do |addr, h| next unless h[’family’] == ‘inet’ && !addr.match(’127.0.0.1′) iface_data = Hash.new iface_data = h.dup iface_data[’address’] = [...]

While there is no delete action recognized by the Chef template resource, it is possible to fake it using a definition. For example, a definition for managing a configuration file for the multifaceted DNS server dnsmasq might look like the following: define :dnsmasq_conf, :enable => true, :template => ‘dnsmasq.conf.erb’ do include_recipe ‘dnsmasq’   conffile = [...]