[Puppet Users] augtool/augeas doesn't work in f17?

Hi Bret,

Check if there is a parse error in /augeas//error with

print /augeas//error


Cheers,

Raphaël

The lack of errors from the augeas resource type should be much improved
now if you're able to use Puppet 3.

I've added debug if there are parsing errors (which will print output
equivalent to Raphaël's augtool suggestion) and warnings if you're using
context/incl parameters and it finds an error on a file you're trying to
modify.

I am using Puppet 3 -- 3.0.1-1, to be precise. In response to Raphael's
suggestion, I'm able to find some errors and can work through those.

Where should these be printing to from Puppet?

I spoke too soon. The specific file I'm trying to work with is
/etc/cron.allow. When I try to parse it:

augtool> ls /files/etc/cron.allow
augtool> print /augeas//error
/augesa/files/etc/hosts/error = "parse_failed"
/augeas/files/etc/hosts/error/pos = "18473"
/augeas/files/etc/hosts/error/line = "273"
/augeas/files/etc/hosts/error/char = "0"
/augeas/files/etc/hsots/error/lens =
"/usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist/hosts.aug:23.12-.42:"
/augeas/files/etc/hsots/error/message = "Iterated lens matched less than it
should"

It doesn't look like the error is getting updated, or am I misunderstanding
something?

Ah ok, cron.allow doesn't have a lens in Augeas 0.10.0, it's something
that's only been added recently. This is why it won't even show up as a
parse error.

What you could try is taking the lens from git:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/augeas.git/tree/lenses/simplelines.aug

Either store it in /usr/share/augeas/lenses/, or add it to a module at
<modulename>/lib/augeas/lenses/ and it will pluginsync to the client[1].
If you put it in the former directory, you should be able to do an "ls"
from augtool.
When you run augtool, it parses all the files (in their default
locations) that it knows about. So that's just reporting it has a parse
error with your /etc/hosts file on line 273 (!!), which is going to be
unrelated to cron.allow. As above, because 0.10.0 doesn't have support
for cron.allow, nothing appears when you do an "ls" for that file.
It would be printing in the debug logs, but it would probably only print
the /etc/hosts error since that's the only one that occurred.


[1]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/plugins_in_modules.html#details