Re: puppetmaster --genconfig

On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:41 AM, ADNET Ghislain wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i used puppetd --genmanifest to create a site.pp and it created  
> some weird entry:
>
>    file { '/var/puppet/log':
>        group => 'puppet',
>        loglevel => 'debug',
>        owner => 'puppet',
>        backup => 'false',
>        mode => '488',
>        ensure => 'directory'
>    }
>
> the mode 488 is strange to me as the maximum i know of is 777, any  
> idea why i get this ?

That's a bug in how the octal mode is getting converted to a string.   
It's fixed in git and will work correctly in the next release.

If you want to correctly convert it, then use ruby -e 'puts "%o" %  
488' to get the appropriate octal value.

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