Jira (PUP-3023) Puppet does not respect the path setting when set in the agent section of puppet.conf

[Nick Walker (JIRA)]

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Nick Walker created an issue   Puppet / PUP-3023 Puppet does not respect the path setting when set in the agent section of puppet.conf Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.6.2 Assignee: Unassigned Attachments: test.tar.gz Created: 06/Aug/14 2:04 PM Labels: support customer Priority: Normal Reporter: Nick Walker When I set the path setting in the [agent] section of puppet.conf it does not seem to be respected. If I move it to the [main] section then it is respected. I'm using the attached test module which outputs the path that the agent is using during an exec statement. I've tested on both solaris 10 and centos 6.4 with the same result. Reproduction Steps using PE3.3.0: 1. Classify the node with the test module 2. View the contents of /tmp/path_test.out 3. rm /tmp/path_test.out (to make sure you know when it's been written again) 4. Edit puppet.conf on your agent Set path to /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/tmp in the [agent] section 5. service pe-puppet restart to cause the change to be taken and cause a daemonized run to start 6. View the contents of /tmp/path_test.out The contents should be the same as in test 2 because the setting isn't respected. 7. rm /tmp/path_test.out again 8. Edit puppet.conf on your agent Set path to /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/tmp in the [main] section this time 9. service pe-puppet restart to cause the change to be taken and cause a daemonized run to start 10. View the contents of /tmp/path_test.out The contents should now be /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/tmp:/sbin Another interesting thing to note is that I get this warning upon restart of pe-puppet when path is set in the [main] section but not when it's in the [agent] section which also makes me thing the path is ignored when it's in the [agent] section. Starting puppet: /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/defaults.rb:182: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp in PATH, mode 041777 Add Comment   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.