Puppet users - Feb 2007 - probably running puppet on red hat for the first time

Here at the University of Sydney I''m trying to give Puppet a go. I  
haven''t made it past first base yet unfortunately.

We run RHEL 4 here, for the most part, and the install guide at   
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/InstallationGuide says that  
you should use the vendor''s Ruby, but Red Hat''s current
version of
Ruby is 1.8.1-07 - is this new enough? I assumed that it would be and  
proceeded...

When I try and start up puppetmasterd either with --mkusers or -- 
nonodes I get the following error:

[root@flx-web-dev 1.8]# /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd --nonodes
/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:42:in `[]='': Unknown  
configuration parameter :lockdir (Puppet::Error)
         from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:39:in  
`synchronize''
         from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:39:in `[]=''
         from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:308:in `parse''
         from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:278:in `each''
         from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:278:in `parse''
         from /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:193

I''ve gone through /usr/lib/ruby/... and checked that there are all of  
the prereqs in there, and there seems to be.

So now I''m thinking that perhaps 1.8.1 is too old for Puppet? Or have  
I done something stupid?

All I''ve really done after installing facter, puppet and puppet- 
server RPMs from the dlutter repository is create the following files  
and directories, as per the install guide:

/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
/etc/puppet/manifests/functions.pp
/etc/puppet/manifests/os/
/etc/puppet/manifests/classes/

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jesse

Ah, Luke has suggested that I remove the lockdir line from  
puppetd.conf and now puppetmasterd starts up OK. Aparently there is  
no longer support for lockdb in the config file.

Cheers
Jesse

On 12/02/2007, at 5:08 PM, Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> Here at the University of Sydney I''m trying to give Puppet a go. I
> haven''t made it past first base yet unfortunately.
>
> We run RHEL 4 here, for the most part, and the install guide at
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/InstallationGuide says that
> you should use the vendor''s Ruby, but Red Hat''s current
version of
> Ruby is 1.8.1-07 - is this new enough? I assumed that it would be and
> proceeded...
>
> When I try and start up puppetmasterd either with --mkusers or --
> nonodes I get the following error:
>
> [root@flx-web-dev 1.8]# /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd --nonodes
> /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:42:in `[]='': Unknown
> configuration parameter :lockdir (Puppet::Error)
>          from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:39:in
> `synchronize''
>          from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:39:in `[]=''
>          from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:308:in
`parse''
>          from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:278:in
`each''
>          from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/config.rb:278:in
`parse''
>          from /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:193
>
> I''ve gone through /usr/lib/ruby/... and checked that there are all
of
> the prereqs in there, and there seems to be.
>
> So now I''m thinking that perhaps 1.8.1 is too old for Puppet? Or
have
> I done something stupid?
>
> All I''ve really done after installing facter, puppet and puppet-
> server RPMs from the dlutter repository is create the following files
> and directories, as per the install guide:
>
> /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
> /etc/puppet/manifests/functions.pp
> /etc/puppet/manifests/os/
> /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Jesse
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