I found that the file struct under /etc/puppet/files was owned by root (oops, fixed).
However, in using this method outlined earlier, I'm still not able to get the desired result: > file { "/usr/local/nagios": ; > "/usr/local/nagios/libexec": > requires => File['/usr/local/nagios'], > owner => 'root', > mode => 655, > group => 'root', > ensure => directory, > } Mar 31 17:11:06 test-fms puppet-agent[29221]: (/Stage[main]/Nagios- test/File[/usr/local/nagios/libexec]/ensure) change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /usr/local/nagios/libexec; parent directory /usr/local/nagios does not exist I find this very confusing - perhaps it's simpler to 'exec' a 'mkdir - p' in here as a dependency if the structure doesn't exist? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.