Puppet users - Mar 2011 - Re: Puppet mkusers error (was Puppet without FQDN (could not retrieve fact fqdn))

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, msacks <ntwrkd@gmail.com>
wrote:
> So I bit the bullet and added the system to DNS.
> Now I am trying to generate the files automatically, but when I call
> "puppet --mkusers" now it doesn''t seem to take any
action.
Facepalm, I mean

# puppet master --mkusers

Yields the following error:
Could not parse for environment production: Could not find file /root/master.pp


> I checked the puppet logs but nothing has been logged or generated yet.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Richard Crowley <r@rcrowley.org>
wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, msacks wrote:
>> Hello,
>>> I am testing Puppet and I would like to use it without having to
add a
>>> DNS entry. Is there a way around this, or am I required to rely on
>>> DNS?
>>
>> You can run Puppet like this:
>>
>> puppet master --certname=$(cat/etc/puppet/certname)
>> puppet agent --certname=$(cat/etc/puppet/certname)
>>
>> to use the contents of an arbitrary file as the SSL certificate name
instead of the fqdn fact.
>>
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msacks wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, msacks <ntwrkd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I bit the bullet and added the system to DNS.
>> Now I am trying to generate the files automatically, but when I call
>> "puppet --mkusers" now it doesn''t seem to take any
action.
> Facepalm, I mean
> 
> # puppet master --mkusers
> 
What version are you running? The git-like sub commands came in 2.6.x
and later?

Regards

James

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James Turnbull <james <at> puppetlabs.com>
writes:
> 
> msacks wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, msacks <ntwrkd <at>
gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So I bit the bullet and added the system to DNS.
> >> Now I am trying to generate the files automatically, but when I
call
> >> "puppet --mkusers" now it doesn''t seem to take
any action.
> > Facepalm, I mean
> > 
> > # puppet master --mkusers
> > 
> 
> What version are you running? The git-like sub commands came in 2.6.x
> and later?
> 
> Regards
> 
> James
> 

All you need to do to fix is remove the association of your short hostname
and add it to the host file....  ahh let me just show you:
[root@puppetmd01 puppetdev]# grep puppetmd01 /etc/hosts
192.168.122.200	   puppetmd01 puppetmd01.fastpedal.com puppet
puppet.fastpedal.com 
[root@puppetmd01 puppetdev]# cat /etc/resolv.conf 
# Generated by NetworkManager
search fastpedal.com
nameserver 192.168.122.1


As long as you use the host file and us a made-up domain name and you add
that into the search variable in the /etc/resolve.conf file.... that error
should go away...  - you don''t need DNS .. you need the resolver :-)

Tony
tony@fastpedal.com


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