[chef] Re: template not creating file on Ubuntu 14

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Bannon, Steve 
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 wrote:
> I have a simple motd rule that is failing on bootstrap because it says the 
> file doesn’t exist.  The stack trace says “create” is true.  The rule works 
> fine on ubuntu 12/13. Do you think this is a bug?
>
> the code in question:
>
> template "/etc/motd" do
>         source "motd.erb"
>         owner "root"
>         group "root"
>         mode "0644"
>         force_unlink true
> end

Does /etc/motd exist as a link to /var/run/motd before-hand?

Bryan