[Puppet Users] exec command: command works on cli, but not via puppet

I'm a noob. I'm wondering if I'm doing something fundamentally wrong and
am looking for some debugging advise.

I get an error that the exec command failed because it returned 1 instead
of 0 but when I copy the command puppet outputs as an error, and paste that
into a shell it works perfectly. The command's syntax is this:

/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -ppass < /path/to/sqlfile.sql # obviously not exactly
the same

an exit code of 1 is "Operation not permitted"

I have temporarily disabled selinux. puppet can create files owned by root
in directories that only root can create them, so it shouldn't be a
permissions problem.

Any ideas are very welcome.


Marc