Puppet users - Nov 2010 - using puppet to restore root access to a box

Hey all, I''m pretty new to puppet; I''m coming from a cfengine
background.  Anyway, so far I like puppet well enough.

I''ve got a dilemma I''m hoping this list can help with. 
I''ve lost root
access to a postgres master running on an ec2 instance.  It''s running
a 0.24.x client that''s checking into my puppet master which runs
2.6.3.  All I''d like to do is have the puppet agent pull down a
sudoers file, but I''m seeing that 0.24.x clients don''t support
stages
and some other errors that seem totally work-around-able.

Nov 11 19:38:01 ip-<address> puppet-master[3885]: Could not call:
Fileset paths must be fully qualified
Nov 11 19:38:01 ip-<address> puppet-master[3885]: Compiled catalog for
postgres-master in environment development in 0.02 seconds
Nov 11 19:38:01 ip-<address> puppet-master[3885]: Stages are not
supported by 0.24.x client; stage(s) Stage[main] will be ignored
Nov 11 19:38:01 ip-<address> puppet-master[3885]: Could not call:
Mounts without paths are not usable

I''ve stripped site.pp down to bare bones in hopes to have it pull the
sudoers file:
(the puppet master''s hostname is ''puppet'')

node default {

  file { "/etc/sudoers":
    owner     => "root",
    group     => "root",
    mode      => "440",
    source    => "puppet://puppet/modules/users/sudoers"
  }

}

I''m guessing that I need to somehow serve up a catalog in a non-staged
way, but I have no idea how to do that.  Any tips?  Should I just
install a 0.24.x master temporarily?

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:52:26AM -0800, birdsong
wrote:
> 
> I''m guessing that I need to somehow serve up a catalog in a
non-staged
> way, but I have no idea how to do that.  Any tips?  Should I just
> install a 0.24.x master temporarily?
If coyping is the problem, don''t copy the file; write it.  So do 

	content => file( whatever )

rather than

	source => ''puppet:///whatever''


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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce@workshy.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:52:26AM -0800, birdsong wrote:
>>
>> I''m guessing that I need to somehow serve up a catalog in a
non-staged
>> way, but I have no idea how to do that.  Any tips?  Should I just
>> install a 0.24.x master temporarily?
>
> If coyping is the problem, don''t copy the file; write it.  So do
>
>        content => file( whatever )
>
> rather than
>
>        source => ''puppet:///whatever''
>
>
that''s the thing, not sure if it''s the copy that is the
problem--though this appears to remove one of the failed steps.  it''s
this line that i was thinking indicates the outer most scope of the
problem:
Nov 11 19:38:01 ip-<address> puppet-master[3885]: Stages are not
supported by 0.24.x client; stage(s) Stage[main] will be ignored

i infer Stage[main] is everything, therefore File {} will never be
applied on the agent.  (still learning the right words to describe
puppet actions..)
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:46:50PM -0800, David Birdsong
wrote:
> problem--though this appears to remove one of the failed steps. 
it''s
> this line that i was thinking indicates the outer most scope of the
> problem:
> Nov 11 19:38:01 ip-<address> puppet-master[3885]: Stages are not
> supported by 0.24.x client; stage(s) Stage[main] will be ignored
> 
> i infer Stage[main] is everything, therefore File {} will never be
> applied on the agent.  (still learning the right words to describe
> puppet actions..)
Ah, right.  You may find this useful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/puppet-dev@googlegroups.com/msg08787.html

If there''s a version of 2.6 where that fix has gone in, you need that
version.  If not, you could try applying the patch yourself ;)


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