Puppet users - Mar 2009 - automating portinstall via puppet on freebsd

Hi there,
this is not really a puppet reltated question but maybe someone who
uses puppet on freebsd machines has bumped into the same problem.

I want puppet to take care that certain ports are installed or updated
which works fine ...
... as long as there is no user input during the installation process.
But there are ports like "nagios-plugins" or "munin-node"
who ask the
user for confirmation whether to install users and stuff. Despite a
"BATCH=yes" entry in /etc/make.conf these confirmations don''t
vanish
and the installation process stops. So the puppetd hangs awaiting a
user input.

What makes things worse: I have no clue how to connect to a running
puppet process which doesn''t have a terminal (it''s just a cron
job
without a terminal).

Anybody out there who can help me out?

best regards,
Bernd Kuhlen
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Hi Bernd Kuhlen,

I was having the same problem while installing nagios nrpe client. At the
Makefile were a few deps which are taken care of with the "BATCH=yes"
option but I believe they build in another question at
$PACKAGEDIR/files/pkg-install.in which doesn''t care about the
"BATCH=yes"
options :(

So if there are more FreeBSD users who stumbled upon this issues please let
us know or maybe you found a way to solve this ?

Please do let us know!

Kind regards,

Ivo

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:42:36 -0700 (PDT), "kuhlen@gmx.net"
<kuhlen@gmx.net>
wrote:
> Hi there,
> this is not really a puppet reltated question but maybe someone who
> uses puppet on freebsd machines has bumped into the same problem.
> 
> I want puppet to take care that certain ports are installed or updated
> which works fine ...
> ... as long as there is no user input during the installation process.
> But there are ports like "nagios-plugins" or
"munin-node" who ask the
> user for confirmation whether to install users and stuff. Despite a
> "BATCH=yes" entry in /etc/make.conf these confirmations
don''t vanish
> and the installation process stops. So the puppetd hangs awaiting a
> user input.
> 
> What makes things worse: I have no clue how to connect to a running
> puppet process which doesn''t have a terminal (it''s just a
cron job
> without a terminal).
> 
> Anybody out there who can help me out?
> 
> best regards,
> Bernd Kuhlen
> 
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