Puppet users - Mar 2007 - err: cannot create directory, parent doesn''t exist. But it does.

I just updated to 0.22.2 and am running into a strange issue.

I''m starting puppetmaster, and seeing this in my error log:

err: 
/puppetconfig/reporting/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports]/ensure:
change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create 
/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports; parent directory 
/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist
err: 
/puppetconfig/metrics/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/rrd]/ensure: 
change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create 
/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/rrd; parent directory 
/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist

However:
[root@manage ~]# ls -l /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var
total 24
drwxr-x---  2 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:39 clientbucket
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:39 lib
drwxr-x---  2 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:39 logs
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:39 run
drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:39 state
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:39 templates

Puppet itself creates the var directory, which also surprises me that 
some of those folders are world writable.

This is ruby-1.8.6 on CentOS 4.4.

The relevant section of puppetmasterd.conf:
     confdir           = /Library/Puppet/Versioned/Server/complete/puppet
     vardir            = /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var
     ssldir            = /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/SSL
     logdir            = $vardir/logs
     rundir            = $vardir/run
     templatedir       = $vardir/templates
     plugindest        = $vardir/plugins
     setpidfile        = true
     statedir          = $vardir/state
     statefile         = $statedir/state.yaml
     graphdir          = $statedir/graphs
     graph             = true
     syslogfacility    = daemon

Cheers,
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Jeff McCune
Systems Manager
The Ohio State University
Department of Mathematics


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Jeff McCune wrote:
> I just updated to 0.22.2 and am running into a strange issue.
> 
> I''m starting puppetmaster, and seeing this in my error log:
> 
> err: 
>
/puppetconfig/reporting/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports]/ensure:
> change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create 
> /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports; parent directory 
> /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist
> err: 
>
/puppetconfig/metrics/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/rrd]/ensure:
> change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create 
> /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/rrd; parent directory 
> /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist
So, I uncommented the following in my puppetmasterd.conf file, and it 
stopped complaining.  This a bug?

reportdir = $vardir/reports
rrddir = $vardir/rrd

I''m still a bit concerned about the world writable directories. Is
there
a specific reason the run and state directories are mode 1777 ?

Cheers,
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Systems Manager
The Ohio State University
Department of Mathematics


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On Mar 20, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Jeff McCune wrote:
> Jeff McCune wrote:
>> I just updated to 0.22.2 and am running into a strange issue.
>> I''m starting puppetmaster, and seeing this in my error log:
>> err: /puppetconfig/reporting/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/ 
>> var/reports]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed:  
>> Cannot create /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/reports; parent  
>> directory /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist
>> err: /puppetconfig/metrics/File[/Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/ 
>> var/rrd]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed: Cannot  
>> create /Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var/rrd; parent directory / 
>> Library/Puppet/Generated/Server/var does not exist
>
> So, I uncommented the following in my puppetmasterd.conf file, and  
> it stopped complaining.  This a bug?
>
> reportdir = $vardir/reports
> rrddir = $vardir/rrd
That certainly seems like a bug, but... Strange.  I don''t know where  
the bug is.  I guess file it, and I''ll see if I can track it down.

I don''t see how all of the reports tests pass, since they use those  
directories.
> I''m still a bit concerned about the world writable directories. Is
> there a specific reason the run and state directories are mode 1777 ?
I''ve been meaning to fix it for a while.  Root and the puppet user  
both need write access, and run directories are usually the same  
modes as /tmp, but if these are private directories there''s no reason  
to have those modes.

Feel free to file it as a bug.

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Reported this under https://reductivelabs.com/cgi-bin/puppet.cgi/ticket/554

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Jeff McCune
The Ohio State University
Department of Mathematics
Systems Manager


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