Issue #2910 has been updated by Markus Roberts.
So the explanation for the problem I observed in comment 18 above is that I'm testing on a Mac and my /tmp is a symlink. If I specify "/tmp/" I get the directory but if I just specify "/tmp" I get the symlink (and it doesn't recurse across it). As there's no "links" attribute for tidy this seems to be a limitation, though not as mysterious as it originally seemed. Specifically, it appears that tidy will never recurse across symlinks it encounters. ---------------------------------------- Bug #2910: tidy failing to remove any matching files http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2910 Author: Peter Couvares Status: Ready for Testing Priority: High Assigned to: Markus Roberts Category: tidy Target version: 0.25.5 Affected version: 0.25.4 Keywords: Branch: http://github.com/MarkusQ/puppet/tree/ticket/0.25.x/2910 I'm somehow unable to get tidy to work _at all_ -- here is what I'm specifying, right inside a node definition in nodes.pp: <pre> tidy { tidy_tmp: path => "/tmp/", age => "7d", backup => false, matches => [ "jna*.tmp" ], } </pre> The rest of my node definition, and everything else in nodes.pp more generally, works fine -- but matching files are not being tidied. I can confirm many matching files on the client host in question with: <pre> find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -name 'jna*.tmp' -atime +7 -print </pre> I've tried the following in turn, with no luck: * removing the matches attribute altogether, * removing the age attribute altogether, * replacing the matches list with a simple string, * removing the explicit path attribute and using "/tmp" as the name, * and setting the type attribute to "mtime" instead of the default atime. I'm out of ideas, no one on IRC had any other ideas, and so I now suspect a bug. If I'm doing something foolish, however, I'd be grateful to know. Thanks. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
