Jira (PUP-1904) Host resource type corrupts /etc/hosts

[Fabio Pugliese Ornellas (JIRA)]

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Fabio Pugliese Ornellas commented on an issue   Re: Host resource type corrupts /etc/hosts Linux Mint 16 / Ubuntu 13.10 and latest puppet package from official Puppet Labs repo (3.6.1-1puppetlabs1). I also reproduced the issue on CentOS 5 / 6, but with Puppet 2.7.x. I made tests using Augeas directly, and it seems to detect the error, and report it. However, Puppet seems to do nothing with it, other than reporting it: Error: Could not prefetch host provider 'parsed': Could not parse line " syntax error line" at hosts:3 and starting over with an empty file. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1904 Host resource type corrupts /etc/hosts Hello, It seems when /etc/hosts has a syntax error, Puppet only reports the error, and start over with an empty file, only adding the new resource. It essentially erases all original entries to the file. When file syntax is OK, everything seems to work fine. I had problems with this situation in production systems, where, due to a human error, there... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.