mode() not setting file permissions correctly

[gargooza]

1.0.0~beta1 (git: master c6f7db5)

I have an alert that includes the following lines:
b|deadman(100.0, 15m) .id('Deadman') .message('{{ .ID }} is {{ .Level }}: {{ index .Fields "emitted" }} points seen in last 15m') .log('/tmp/Deadman.log') .mode(644)

I expected the resulting log file to have perms -rw-r--r-- but instead it has:
--w----r-- 1 kapacitor kapacitor 1.7K Jun 22 10:37 Deadman.log

[rossmcdonald]

@gargooza Do you have the same issue if you update the mode to 0644? Based on the documentation, the .mode() node expects a 4-digit mode.

There definitely needs some more validation on the specified mode to prevent issues like this, though.

[gargooza]

I am actually specifying 0644 as the mode when I define the task. What I pasted earlier was the output from a show task.

[nathanielc]

@gargooza The bug is that the mode is being interpreted as a decimal number instead of an octal number. We should change it to accept a string that then gets interpreted as an base 8 number.