On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 5:41 PM Sean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange puppet error (v4.10.1) with a file resource that creates
> a cron job...
>
> file { '/etc/cron.daily/aide':
> ensure => $mymodule::ensure_aide,
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> mode => '0755',
> source => 'puppet:///modules/mymodule/cron/daily-aide-check.sh',
> require => Package['aide'],
> }
>
> The error is:
>
> Error: Failed to apply catalog: Validation of File[/etc/cron.daily/aide]
> failed: You cannot specify more than one of content, source, target at <source
> file>:line#
>
>
>
> The ensure param is a Variant - either boolean or enum of true, false,
> present, absent, latest. The code passes the puppet parser and checking
> puppet lookup for $mymodule::ensure_aide for the test node returns a 'true'
> value from the module's hiera data.
>
File's ensure doesn't take boolean values. If the ensure value is not one
of present, absent, file, directory, or link, the value gets interpreted as
a link target name:
david@davids:~$ puppet apply -e 'file {"/tmp/test_file": ensure => true,
content => "bar" }'
Notice: Compiled catalog for davids.corp.puppetlabs.net in environment
production in 0.07 seconds
Error: Validation of File[/tmp/test_file] failed: You cannot specify more
than one of content, source, target at line 1
david@davids:~$ puppet apply -e 'file {"/tmp/test_file": ensure => true }'
Notice: Compiled catalog for davids.corp.puppetlabs.net in environment
production in 0.07 seconds
Error: Could not set 'link' on ensure: FileSystem implementation expected
Pathname, got: 'TrueClass' at line 1
Error: Could not set 'link' on ensure: FileSystem implementation expected
Pathname, got: 'TrueClass' at line 1
Wrapped exception:
FileSystem implementation expected Pathname, got: 'TrueClass'
Error: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/test_file]/ensure: change from absent to
link failed: Could not set 'link' on ensure: FileSystem implementation
expected Pathname, got: 'TrueClass' at line 1
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.03 seconds
david@davids:~$
see https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/type.html#file-attribute-ensure
for the long-form.
Cheers, David
>
> Any ideas?
>
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