Agreed, please sure the ticket link!

That said, who decided a tilde to start a file name was good for anything
but a temp file??? I understand you have no choice as a user, but
someone somewhere, somewhen, chose it :(

On Thursday, November 10, 2016, Christopher Wood <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I can reproduce this using puppet 4.4.2 from puppet-agent 1.4.2,
> definitely seems like a bug. You can "cd ~user" in a bash shell so I wonder
> if somebody somewhere made something which works similarly. I'd be
> interested in watching the bug you file because I'm nosy.
>
> $ cat /tmp/x.pp
> file { '/tmp/x~x':
>   content => "x\n",
> }
>
> file { '/tmp/~x':
>   content => "x\n",
> }
>
> file { '/tmp/x~':
>   content => "x\n",
> }
> $ puppet apply /tmp/x.pp
> Notice: Compiled catalog for cwl.hostopia.com in environment production
> in 0.04 seconds
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/x~x]/ensure: defined content as '{md5}
> 401b30e3b8b5d629635a5c613cdb7919'
> Error: Could not set 'file' on ensure: user x20161110-7118-fwfpjo doesn't
> exist at 5:/tmp/x.pp
> Error: Could not set 'file' on ensure: user x20161110-7118-fwfpjo doesn't
> exist at 5:/tmp/x.pp
> Wrapped exception:
> user x20161110-7118-fwfpjo doesn't exist
> Error: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/~x]/ensure: change from absent to file
> failed: Could not set 'file' on ensure: user x20161110-7118-fwfpjo doesn't
> exist at 5:/tmp/x.pp
> Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/x~]/ensure: defined content as '{md5}
> 401b30e3b8b5d629635a5c613cdb7919'
> Notice: Applied catalog in 0.15 seconds
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Fabrice Bacchella wrote:
> >    yes it works once removed.
> >
> >      Le 10 nov. 2016 à 16:13, Rob Nelson <[1][email protected]
> <javascript:;>> a écrit :
> >      I don't have an answer, but did you verify that when you remove the
> >      tilde, the resource applies properly? If so, this does sound like a
> bug
> >      of some sort.
> >      Rob Nelson
> >      [2][email protected] <javascript:;>
> >      On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Fabrice Bacchella
> >      <[3][email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >        I need a file called /etc/cron.hourly/~cronalive. I don't like
> the ~
> >        but don't have real choice here.
> >
> >        So I defined the following resource:
> >
> >            file{'/etc/cron.hourly/~cronalive':
> >               ....
> >            }
> >
> >        But if fails with:
> >
> >        Error: Could not set 'file' on ensure: user
> >        cronalive20161110-32243-1wx31rr doesn't exist at
> >        .../manifests/node.pp:35
> >
> >        I think it resolve ~cronalive using shell resolution and looks
> for the
> >        homedir of this user. Is there any work around for that ? Adding
> a \
> >        create a file whose name starts with a \, using path   =>
> >        '/etc/cron.hourly/~cronalive' gives the same result.
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