Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

There might be a bug, but again, you're on an EOL version of puppet. It's entirely possible that any issue you're observing has been fixed already. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:56 AM Robert Inder wrote: > On 22 June 2017 at 14:42, jcbollinger

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

On 22 June 2017 at 14:42, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:26:41 AM UTC-5, Robert Inder wrote: > > I don't understand why the behavior you describe occurs, but I also don't > understand why you are trying to set the owner of the link in the

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

> On 22 Jun 2017, at 15:42, jcbollinger wrote: > > > So why not go with that? The link owner is relevant only to modifying or > removing the link itself, and since you're managing it via Puppet, I don't > see what purpose it serves to relax the permissions for

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:26:41 AM UTC-5, Robert Inder wrote: I don't understand why the behavior you describe occurs, but I also don't understand why you are trying to set the owner of the link in the first place, especially if the directory containing it belongs to root. >If I

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

On Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:17:09 UTC+1, Rob Nelson wrote: > > Have you tried to create the link manually to see what happens? > By design, the directory containing the link is owned by root, because we don't want anybody but root to be able create the link. And root can use ln -s -

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

Have you tried to create the link manually to see what happens? Also you probably know but Puppet 3 is EOL. If the issue is with puppet itself, rather than perms, it's going to require an upgrade to fix. Unlikely, but wanted to make sure you're aware. On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:13 PM Robert Inder

[Puppet Users] Puppet works on 41 times out of 43. Help?

I'm hoping someone can help me diagnose a problem with Puppet version 3.8.7 running on CentOS 6.4. I have a couple of servers with a total of 43 web-accessed software systems, each with its own unix user. These installations are all created from scratch by Puppet, and then the appropriate