TMP files left behind on Windows server

[Nick Miller]

Hi,

I have a manifest that pushes files to some Windows servers.  Everything seems to work well, except that it sometimes leaves some temp files behind.  If I have MyApp.exe, after a while the directory looks like this:

MyApp.exe

MyApp.exe~RF27dk3hdk.TMP

MyApp.exe~RF27en2n3h.TMP

MyApp.exe~RF27n3hs93.TMP

I have several File[] types pushing to this directory, so I don't think Purge => true is an option.

Does anyone know why these are piling up?

Thanks,

Nick

[Rob Reynolds]

What version of puppet agent? Would it happen to be 3.4.x series? 

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[Nick Miller]

Actually yes, it's 3.4.3

[Rob Reynolds]

We just changed a particular function we use to copy files in 3.4.1 and then fixed up a couple of things with it in 3.4.3 [1][2]. There were some more fixes that went into 3.5.0 [3], but it is possible that we missed some things.

If you don't find this fixed with 3.5.1 when it comes out, then please follow up with an issue.

[1]: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1389

[2]: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1368

[3]: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1450

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[Nick Miller]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for that update.

In the meantime, for anyone else having this problem, this is how I was able to work around it:

exec{'remove_temp':

                command                 => "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /c del *.TMP /f /q /a",

                cwd                     => 'C:\\Path\\To\\Files',

                refreshonly             => true,

        }

File['your_file_copy'] ~> Exec['remove_temp']