Hi All, I have created a puppet manifest for creating hadoop folder for each user and changing the ownership for each user.Am giving the user with title parameter from nodes.pp I was trying to execute two commands using exec parameter, but its executing the first command, second command it is not executing . Dont know if am following the correct syntax . please help . Attached below complete manifest module . define hadoop::dir { exec { "/usr/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/$title && /usr/bin/hadoop fs -chown $title:title /user/$title ": creates => "/usr/bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/$title", } regards John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/ac37ae30-a203-4996-8bf8-c331fb9640b6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.