[Puppet Users] Re: In the catalog, /Settings[*] is what?

Peter Meier
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:42:04 -0000

Hi

> A number of questions:
>
> 1. Where did /Settings come from?

how did you start your puppetmasterd, as which user?

> 2. Is there a way to dump the contents of the catalog to understand?

this is not part of the catalog, puppetmasterd tries to create an
environment itself like it should be.

> 3. I want to change the perms for all that stuff

if you run it as root it should do it, there have been a little bug in
past which still shows that however that should be fixed in 0.24.8 or at
least in the upcoming version.

> 4. puppetd is not running on this host, does puppetmasterd act like a
> puppetd?

nope, it just tries to create/manage the environment like it should be
to run fine. but look for the bug mentioned above.

cheers pete