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[[!meta title="Puppet empties new and existing files"]]
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After [we](http://sans.ethz.ch) changed our puppetmaster to run
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under unicorn plus nginx and the first 2.6.0 client connected,
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I realised that puppetd created empty files on the client.
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Not even new files created are affected, but also existing
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files.
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It seems that [issue 4319](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4319)
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is related to that problem, as the same entries are found in the
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logfile.
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The [[client reports about|debuglog]] duplicated files in the filebucket:
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info: FileBucket got a duplicate file /etc/pam.d/common-password ({md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e)
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info: FileBucket got a duplicate file /etc/pam.d/common-account ({md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e)
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info: FileBucket got a duplicate file /etc/pam.d/common-auth ({md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e)
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But hey, they are duplicate, because they all have the same checksum!
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And the checksum is everywhere the same, because all files are empty:
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% touch test
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% md5sum test
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d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e test
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In the syslog of the puppetmaster one can see
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Oct 1 14:31:14 sans-puppetca puppetmaster_unicorn: 129.132.85.166 - - [01/Oct/2010 14:31:14] "GET /production/file_content//autofs/auto.net HTTP/1.0" 404 44 0.0012
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So in essence, what happens is:
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* puppetd 2.6.0 submits two slashes in the path (//)
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* puppetmaster via unicorn does not find the file, because of the double slash
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* puppetd sees the 404 error and creates a empty file
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Switching to webbrick as a workaround works, because it accepts the two slashes.
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Replacing the two slashes with one in the server does not fix the origin
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of the problem, nor does it address the issue that puppetd creates
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empty files, if it gets a 404 for the file content.
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# Update #1
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I switched over to use [[cdist|software/cdist]] instead of Puppet.
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[[!tag config eth unix]]
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