Re: Possible bug with variable snippet names

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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net&gt; wrote:

>  Can someone else see if they can reproduce this in a newer version?  I'm
>  still running 1.6.8 in our production environment, so I'm not sure if this
>  has been fixed or not (or possibly even reported, since I have been paying
>  minimal attention to the mailing list/trac lately).
>
>  If I setup a variable snippet like this:
>
>  $SNIPPET("subdir/config_${some_variable}")
>
>  It doesn't work. But if I do this:
>
>  $SNIPPET("subdir/config_" + $some_variable)
>
>  It works fine.  The odd thing is that, when using the syntax that doesn't
>  work and looking at the getks output (with $some_variable="foo"), I see
>  this:
>
>  # Unable to read /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/subdir/config_foo
>
>  So it's expanding the variable correctly at some point, even if it's just
>  when printing out the error message. It seems to be an order issue, where
>  the SNIPPET is not expanding the variable before looking for the file.
>
>  
Try escaping the $ like this:

 $SNIPPET("subdir/config_\${some_variable}")

and see if that will get you what you need.  You can also do a "view
rendered" in the web gui and then look at /var/log/cobbler/cobblerd.log,
maybe you'll see a more exact messages about what it's having a problem
with.

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