Puppet creating file on an agent

Question

I'm running a puppet code that create a file with text, it's working when I'm running it locally (with puppet apply <.pp file> on the same machine) but not working when I'm running the code on an agent from a puppet master server (with puppet agent -t on the manifests directory) my code:

node default {
  file { '/test544/newdirha1': #the path of the new file
    ensure => 'present',
    content => 'this is the content', #this text will be inside the file
    owner => 'root',
    group => 'root',
    mode => '0644',
  }
}

Answer 1

The problem is that the master does not read or process your manifest file at all.

Puppet 3.8 is obsolete and unsupported. The latest us Puppet 6.2, and since you're just getting going I recommend starting there. The expected layout and behavior of that and other more recent Puppet versions differ in some import and relevant ways, but in Puppet 3, the starting point for the master's processing is a single file, the "site manifest", which by default is /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp .

Your master having neither a site manifest nor an external node classifier to rely upon, it will not assign any classes or resources to any node. It will generate only empty catalogs, which is exactly what you observe. Your manifest woot3.pp is ignored. The simplest and most direct way to solve the problem would be to rename woot3.pp to site.pp .