There might be a bug, but again, you're on an EOL version of puppet. It's entirely possible that any issue you're observing has been fixed already.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:56 AM Robert Inder <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 June 2017 at 14:42, jcbollinger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:26:41 AM UTC-5, Robert Inder wrote: >> >> I don't understand why the behavior you describe occurs, but I also don't >> understand why you are trying to set the owner of the link in the first >> place, especially if the directory containing it belongs to root. >> > > I was creating a number of files, mostly in the user's own directory, > and I simply I used the same "pattern" for each of them... > > >> >>> If I change the manifest to not specify ownership of the link, >>> it creates a "swindon" link link owned by root. >>> >> >> So why not go with that? >> > > Now that, thanks to Rob Nelson's suggestion (for which many thanks, Rob), > I realise that this will work, that is indeed the route I will go down. > > Though there does still seem to be a bug in there somewhere... > > > >> The link owner is relevant only to modifying or removing the link itself, >> and since you're managing it via Puppet, I don't see what purpose it serves >> to relax the permissions for that. The link owner and permissions have no >> relevance to *traversing* the link (see symlink(7)). >> >> >> John >> >> > > -- > Robert Inder, 0131 229 1052 / 07808 492 > 213 > Interactive Information Ltd, 3, Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 9HH > Registered in Scotland, Company no. SC 150689 > Interactions speak louder than > words > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAKqjJm-vLb-%3D%2BGo4%2BbwNM13JOVipDf0nsoZnk3xmFsUbrs6q6Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAKqjJm-vLb-%3D%2BGo4%2BbwNM13JOVipDf0nsoZnk3xmFsUbrs6q6Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Rob Nelson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAC76iT8Vf-QGBb-L_wysnPiBSYsBGCrdZFqyN%3DydQD78gb%2BTpQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
