Silviu, Thanks for your reply. I'll take a look at the link you provided.
In regards to Augeas, I had tried every combination i could think of to get the 'root' option to work as I expected. For the sake of sanity (my own and the list's) here are a few quick command line tests run on my test machine... [r...@localhost manifests]# date && augtool -- ls /files && date Fri Dec 18 09:14:32 EST 2009 boot/ = (none) etc/ = (none) Fri Dec 18 09:14:35 EST 2009 [r...@localhost manifests]# date && augtool -r /etc/ -- ls /files && date Fri Dec 18 09:14:58 EST 2009 Fri Dec 18 09:14:59 EST 2009 [r...@localhost manifests]# date && augtool -r /etc/pam.d -- ls /files && date Fri Dec 18 09:15:07 EST 2009 Fri Dec 18 09:15:07 EST 2009 -Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.