I am setting up puppet on my boxes.. and one of my boxes gives me this error when I run puppet agent --test ratbert ~ $puppet agent --test info: Caching catalog for ratbert.in.torand.org info: Applying configuration version ''1358784048'' *err: Could not prefetch package provider ''yum'': The yum provider can only be used as root* notice: /File[ntp.conf]/content: I cannot find any information on the web about this error.. -- The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection, but credibility. People must be able to trust you, or they won''t follow you. From "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren Scott Anderson - web: http://www.torand.org - e-mail: sda@torand.org GoogleTalk: sda@torand.org - AIM:andersons776- Twitter:sdanderson Phone: 703-594-1284 -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
----- Original Message -----> From: "Scott Anderson" <sda@torand.org> > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:53:51 PM > Subject: [Puppet Users] what is this trying to tell me? > > I am setting up puppet on my boxes.. and one of my boxes gives me this > error when I run puppet agent --test > > ratbert ~ $puppet agent --test > info: Caching catalog for ratbert.in.torand.org > info: Applying configuration version ''1358784048'' > *err: Could not prefetch package provider ''yum'': The yum provider can only > be used as root* > notice: /File[ntp.conf]/content: > > I cannot find any information on the web about this error..you can only manage packages if you run puppet as root, you ran it as a user. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Oh %$&^*& you are right.. why didn''t I catch that.. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:57 PM, R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net> wrote:> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Scott Anderson" <sda@torand.org> > > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:53:51 PM > > Subject: [Puppet Users] what is this trying to tell me? > > > > I am setting up puppet on my boxes.. and one of my boxes gives me this > > error when I run puppet agent --test > > > > ratbert ~ $puppet agent --test > > info: Caching catalog for ratbert.in.torand.org > > info: Applying configuration version ''1358784048'' > > *err: Could not prefetch package provider ''yum'': The yum provider can > only > > be used as root* > > notice: /File[ntp.conf]/content: > > > > I cannot find any information on the web about this error.. > > you can only manage packages if you run puppet as root, you ran it as a > user. > > -- > 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >-- The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection, but credibility. People must be able to trust you, or they won''t follow you. From "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren Scott Anderson - web: http://www.torand.org - e-mail: sda@torand.org GoogleTalk: sda@torand.org - AIM:andersons776- Twitter:sdanderson Phone: 703-594-1284 -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.