What is the "false" directory?

[Sans]

Dear all,

Since last night, Puppet is started creating a directory, named false in the present working directory, if I run puppetd -t manually on the puppet agent. The directory contents are like this:

8/3/e/5/8/6/5/9/83e586594432759eb7aed007e888a172/contents
8/3/e/5/8/6/5/9/83e586594432759eb7aed007e888a172/path

does any one know what are these and why they are being created? Cheers!!

[Peter Bukowinski]

Looks like you have an error in your filebucket definition. Did you, perhaps, put quotes around "false" when you defined the path?

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[Sans]

I don't know what exactly you mean: I don't have any path defined with "false" in it.
Just figured out that whenever the content of a file is being modified, the "false" directory is being created with the old file (as "content") in it. So, looks like it's actually not modifying the file (in question) at all but replacing with the new one and keeping the old (i.e. original) one in the "false" directory. Am I making any sense here at all? Cheers!!

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:39:16 PM UTC+1, pmbuko wrote:

Looks like you have an error in your filebucket definition. Did you, perhaps, put quotes around "false" when you defined the path?

-- Peter

On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Sans <r.sant...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

Since last night, Puppet is started creating a directory, named false in the present working directory, if I run puppetd -t manually on the puppet agent. The directory contents are like this:

8/3/e/5/8/6/5/9/83e586594432759eb7aed007e888a172/contents
8/3/e/5/8/6/5/9/83e586594432759eb7aed007e888a172/path

does any one know what are these and why they are being created? Cheers!!

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[Sans]

Thanks Peter! Got it now!

You were absolutely right - I had path   => 'false' for filebucket (in the site.pp).
But I thought, Puppet recommends to quote around everything (apart from variables). That's not true, I see. Cheers!!

[Peter Bukowinski]

Glad you got it sorted. You've discovered the importance of quoting and *not* quoting. The best practice is to single quote any string that does not contain a variable. If you're using a variable, use double quotes so it gets interpreted properly. Quotes should *not* be used around any of puppet's native values, e.g. true/running, false/stopped, present, absent, file, directory, link latest, absent, purged, etc.

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[Nigel Kersten]

This should get reported as a bug though.

We should probably only accept absolute paths for the 'path' parameter, and "false" should get interpreted as the boolean.

[Krzysztof Wilczynski]

Hi,

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:38:27 PM UTC+1, Nigel Kersten wrote:

This should get reported as a bug though.

We should probably only accept absolute paths for the 'path' parameter, and "false" should get interpreted as the boolean.

+1

KW

[Peter Bukowinski]

Reported.

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14173

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