Thanks a lot Philip - a simple typo "owner" -> "owners" meant that
the data did not reach the engine. Fixed in svn.
M
Montgomery, Philip wrote:
> I am using cfengine version 3.0.0b9 on a RHEL5 x86 system.
>
>
>
> I started off using examples provided in the 3.0 documentation, however,
> I have ran into issues with changing file ownership. If I create a
> files section and specify an owner for a file, cfengine does not change
> the ownership of the file.
>
>
>
> Here is a streamlined promises.cf that I used for testing:
>
>
>
> body common control
>
> {
>
> bundlesequence => {
>
> "main"
>
> };
>
> }
>
> #######################################################
>
>
>
> body runagent control
>
> {
>
> hosts => { "127.0.0.1:5308" };
>
> }
>
> #########################################################
>
> bundle agent main
>
> {
>
> files:
>
> "/tmp/foo" perms => p("root","0700");
>
> }
>
> #########################################################
>
> body perms p(user,mode)
>
> {
>
> owners => { "$(user)" };
>
> mode => "$(mode)";
>
> }
>
>
>
> Here is the relevant section of verbose output from cfagent:
>
>
>
>
>
> cf3 =========================================================
>
> cf3 files in bundle main
>
> cf3 =========================================================
>
> cf3
>
> cf3
>
> cf3 .........................................................
>
> cf3 /tmp/foo
>
> cf3 .........................................................
>
> cf3
>
> cf3 -> Using file literal base path /tmp/foo
>
> cf3 -> File permissions on /tmp/foo as promised
>
> cf3 Nothing promised for [files.perms.owners.mode.._tmp_foo] (0/1
> minutes elapsed)
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> -Phil
>
>
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