Re: Confusion with directories/files?

[Mark . Burgess]

It is possible that the order of your actionseqence means that the directory 
.ssh
is not created until after your try to touch a file within it.
Or perhaps there was some other reason for failure to create a part of the
path. The error messages in file operations are usually unspecific.

M

On  2 Sep, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> With the following snippet:
> 
>    directories:
>      /root/.ssh m=700 o=root g=root
>      home/.ssh  m=700
> 
> 
>    files:
>      /root/.ssh/authorized_keys  m=600 act=touch o=root g=root
>      home/.ssh/authorized_keys   m=600 act=touch
> 
> I keep getting following error:
> 
> 
> cfengine:raven: Directory /m/home/jw/.ssh/authorized_keys cannot be accessed 
> in files
> 
> 
> This looks very strange to me because:
> 
>   $ ls -la /m/home/jw/.ssh
>   total 5
>   drwx------   2 jw jw      80 Aug 18 10:49 .
>   drwx------  18 jw jw    1256 Sep  2 09:57 ..
>   -rw-r--r--   1 jw jw     219 Aug 18 10:49 known_hosts
>   $ 
> 
> 
> Any idea what the error message wants to say to me?  Why is cfengine
> assuming that authorized_keys is a directory?
> 



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