[chef] Re: mode value for directory resource?

["Mark J. Reed" < >]

Oh, and I saw this on
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Directory:

>A note about mode: When specifying the mode, the value can be a quoted 
>string, eg "644". For a >numeric value (i.e., without quotes), it should be 
>5 digits, e.g., 00644 to ensure that Ruby can parse it >correctly. For more 
>detail, see Ticket CHEF-174.

But neither the quotes nor the leading zero helped.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Mark J. Reed 
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 wrote:
> OK, this is bombing on me:
>
> directory "/foo/bar" do
>    owner "username'
>    group "groupname"
>    mode 0700
> end
>
> I've tried all of
>
> mode "0700"
> mode 0700
> mode 700
> mode "700"
>
> And I always get this:
>
> ERROR: directory[/foo/bar]
> (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mycookbook/recipes/foo.rb:21:in
> `from_file') had an error:
> Option mode's value 44 does not match regular expression /^\d{3,4}$/
>
> So it looks like something's converting to decimal (0700 octal = 448
> decimal), stripping off the 8 because it's not a legal octal digit,
> and then complaining about the invalid mode.  Any help here?
>
> This is chef 0.9.8.
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed 
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