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

["Bannon, Steve" < >]

It does work without the force_unlink if the file doesn’t exist, but if it a link it fails.  I tried to add the code from the pull request in the bug to see if it would work but I ran into other issues with that.  Since I don’t want to mess with the installed client, I added an execute resource before the template file which seems to solve the problem

 execute "touch /etc/motd" do

  creates "/etc/motd"

  action :run

 end

thanks for your help

Steve

On May 13, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Steve Bannon < "> > wrote:

In ubuntu12 it is a link and the force_unlink works.  If I remove it before I bootstrap it fails.  I’m trying a test without the force unlink

Steve

On May 12, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Bryan McLellan < "> > wrote:

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Bannon, Steve < "> > 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