Hi Team

[Jegadeesh Kumar]

I am a new bee in puppet world.

I wrote one class to copy a file from puppet master to puppet agent. i puppet client says following error.

Error: /Stage[main]/Motd/File[motd]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://modules/files/etc/motd: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution

Puppet class is

root@puppet classes]# cat motd.pp

class motd{

        file {'motd':

                path   =>"/etc/motd",

                ensure => "file",

                owner  => "root",

                group  => "root",

                mode  => "644",

                #content => "Hello this is jegadeesh test",

                source => "puppet://modules/files/etc/motd"

                }

        }

keep the desired files under /etc/puppet/modules/files/etc

Please help me to short out the issue.

Thanks,

Jegadeesh

[Denmat]

Hi,

You need:

puppet:///modules/...

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html

for details.

Den

On 26 Nov 2014, at 17:43, Jegadeesh Kumar <jega...@gmail.com> wrote:

                source => "puppet://modules/files/etc/motd"

[Tony Thayer]

In addition to needing to use three '/'s in your URI as Den mentioned, you would need to change up your folder path. Modules under /etc/puppet/modules all have their own structure i.e. /etc/puppet/modules/modulename/{files,manifests,templates,tests}. When structuring your URI you need to keep in mind that the 'files' folder is invisible or silent. If you have a module named 'files', then you would need to put your motd file in /etc/puppet/modules/files/files/etc/.

- Tony