Re: file retrieval problems

On Oct 24, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Jimbow wrote:
>
> No, I dont have a namespaceauth.conf. Adding one with permissions of
> 'allow *' for fileserver, puppetmaster and puppetreports made no
> difference.
>
> The above error is generated only on one or sometimes two files  
> from the
> entire puppet client run - all other files are retrieved w/o problems.
> The files requested are always the same and the error does not  
> appear on
> the same file each time.

So it's randomly saying "operation not allowed" on some file copies?

This almost sounds like an operating system thing, maybe something  
failing on the server.

I've never seen it before.

> Apache is allowing everything through, there are no errors in the logs
> anywhere. access.log shows successful xmlrpc entries only (http code
> 200). There are no tcp resets sent between puppet client - apache and
> apache - puppetmaster either.
>
> Any more ideas?

Erm, not really?  You can't usefully snoop the traffic, but maybe you  
could up the logging on apache or mongrel?

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