Re: puppetmaster --genconfig

Luke Kanies
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:35:20 -0000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:41 AM, ADNET Ghislain wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i used puppetd --genmanifest to create a site.pp and it created
> some weird entry:
>
>    file { ''/var/puppet/log'':
>        group => ''puppet'',
>        loglevel => ''debug'',
>        owner => ''puppet'',
>        backup => ''false'',
>        mode => ''488'',
>        ensure => ''directory''
>    }
>
> the mode 488 is strange to me as the maximum i know of is 777, any
> idea why i get this ?

That''s a bug in how the octal mode is getting converted to a string.
It''s fixed in git and will work correctly in the next release.

If you want to correctly convert it, then use ruby -e ''puts
"%o" %
488'' to get the appropriate octal value.

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