Puppet

When you are only setting mode/owner/group on a nonexistant file, puppet will complain about them being wrong when running in noop mode, however, when running normally it will not complain or update anything or create the file. The bug is that noop mode is reporting actions that puppet will not actually take if run in normal update mode.

Personally I think the behavior of the normal run mode is correct (to ignore the file unless it exists).

Example:

% cat test.pp
file { "/tmp/test":
    owner   => root,
    group   => root,
    mode    => 0644,
}
% ls -l /tmp/test
ls: /tmp/test: No such file or directory
% sudo puppet --noop test.pp
Password:
notice: //File[/tmp/test]/owner: is absent, should be root (noop)
notice: //File[/tmp/test]/group: is absent, should be root (noop)
notice: //File[/tmp/test]/mode: is absent, should be 644 (noop)
% sudo puppet test.pp
% ls -l /tmp/test
ls: /tmp/test: No such file or directory