Perhaps it works differently when specifying the content/source of a file.
I tried your example, but with content => 'foo' instead of mode => 640 and
it created the file.
On Sunday, April 14, 2013 8:55:07 AM UTC-7, Felix.Frank wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 04/04/2013 05:08 PM, jcbollinger wrote:
> > if I define a file resource without specifying an ensure parameter,
> > it seems to behave like ensure => present was specified.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, that's the default.
>
> Uhm, are you sure? I would expect the following to be a noop, which
> seems to be the case:
>
> $ puppet apply -e 'file { "/tmp/wth": mode => 640 }'
> notice: Finished catalog run in 0.05 seconds
>
> Puppet *will* change the file mode, if it's not 640, but will not mess
> with the resource's existence.
>
> A different behavior would be confusing, to me at least.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
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