Of course the file you want to deploy with puppet must be readable by the
puppetmaster.
Do you use Apache Passenger, Nginx or webbrick?
If you use Apache Passenger:
The file /etc/puppet/files/server_file must be readable by the user, who
owns the /etc/puppet/rack/config.ru file.
On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:11:02 PM UTC+2, Marshie8 wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:33:38 AM UTC+1, Matthew Burgess wrote:
>>
>> My suggestion would be to take a copy of the file as it is on your
>> server now, and place it under the control of puppet. The following
>> simple manifest should do what you're after:
>>
>> class server_file {
>>
>> file { "/destination/path/to/your/file":
>> owner => owner,
>> group => group,
>> mode => 0640,
>> source => "puppet:///files/server_file",
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
> Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I tried your example but the client is complaining of a permissions error:
>
> Jul 10 15:00:24 system1 puppet-agent[16595]:
> (/Stage[main]/Server_file/File[/etc/server_file]) Could not evaluate: Error
> 400 on SERVER: Permission denied - /etc/puppet/files/server_file Could not
> retrieve file metadata for puppet://
> server-1.company.com/etc/puppet/files/server_file: Error 400 on SERVER:
> Permission denied - /etc/puppet/files/server_file at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/server_file.pp:11
>
> Is there a way I can overcome this, perhaps by changing the ownership
> temporarily?
>
> The original file will be changed semi-regularly by users on the server -
> they have no problem with that - so I put in a cron job to copy it into the
> puppet directory every 10 minutes.
>
> I know it's messy but I don't care if it works - each client system needs
> to take a copy of that file and apply the same permissions to it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> M
>
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