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  1. Puppet Server
  2. SERVER-1671

generate() stdout is written to puppetserver.log

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      Systems Engineering
    • Story Points:
      2
    • Sprint:
      SE 2017-01-11, SE 2017-01-25
    • Release Notes:
      Bug Fix
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      SERVER-1571 updated the generate() function to merge stdout and stderr and return the combined value, but this change had an unintended side effect of logging both stdout and stderr to the puppetserver log file. This has been fixed to preserve the behavior of returning both stderr and stdout from the generate() function call but only logging stderr to puppetserver.log. If a command invoked through generate() does not write to stderr then no log will be generated.
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      SERVER-1571 updated the generate() function to merge stdout and stderr and return the combined value, but this change had an unintended side effect of logging both stdout and stderr to the puppetserver log file. This has been fixed to preserve the behavior of returning both stderr and stdout from the generate() function call but only logging stderr to puppetserver.log. If a command invoked through generate() does not write to stderr then no log will be generated.
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      It seems recent versions of Puppetserver log all stdout and stderr output in lines with

       [c.p.p.ShellUtils] Executed an external process which logged to STDERR:

      instead of just doing so for generate() calls that actually produce output on stderr.

      My guess would be that this is related to SERVER-1571 where stdout and stderr seem to be merged now in generate calls (not quite sure what the use case is for having error messages or warnings mixed into your output).

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. SERVER-1698 Function generate() logs output to puppetserver error log

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
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          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. SERVER-1571 The function generate() should merge stdout and stderr

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
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              Assignee:
              jeremy.barlow Jeremy Barlow
              Reporter:
              mhoermann Matthias Hörmann
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