Re: [Puppet Users] cwd dot folders

Christopher Wood
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:07:49 -0000

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 05:16:01PM -0700, Nikolaos Hatzopoulos
wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>    I am trying to
>    exec { myexectest:
>        path        => "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin",
>        cwd         => "/home/user/.ssh",
>        command =>"echo test > test.txt",
>        onlyif       => "test -f test.txt"

I would have wrapped everything up in a shell script and simply named the shell
script as the namevar, but that''s just me.

>    }
>
>    it doesnt work any clues why? I think it cannot change directory to a
DOT
>    directory

Try running the agent in the foreground with debug on, that will give you a
better error message.

/etc/init.d/puppet stop; puppet agent --debug --verbose --no-daemonize

(There are likely better flags, but I use that out of habit.)

>    please HELP!!
>
>    --Nikos Hatzopoulos
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