Puppet users - Jun 2013 - New to Puppet bash: command not found

I have installed PE 2.8 server
None of the commands work =, for example... puppet --server list, puppet 
agent --test,puppet agent --test --server=`hostname`, 
puppetca, I get the following error: 
*bash: puppetca: command not found      * I get this no matter which 
command I try to run.
** 
*lease help, extremely frustrated.*
*I have installed the server without issue and the agent on another server 
without issue. I am stuck like chuck.*

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Make sure the puppet binaries are in your path. 

-- Peter (from phone)
> On Jun 15, 2013, at 12:11 PM, gfdaddy14@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I have installed PE 2.8 server
> None of the commands work =, for example... puppet --server list, puppet
agent --test,puppet agent --test --server=`hostname`,
> puppetca, I get the following error:
> bash: puppetca: command not found       I get this no matter which command
I try to run.
>  
> lease help, extremely frustrated.
> I have installed the server without issue and the agent on another server
without issue. I am stuck like chuck.
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Forgot to mention that I am ne to LInux also...
 
Do you have an example?
 
On Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:11:17 PM UTC-4, gfda...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have installed PE 2.8 server
> None of the commands work =, for example... puppet --server list, puppet 
> agent --test,puppet agent --test --server=`hostname`, 
> puppetca, I get the following error: 
> *bash: puppetca: command not found      * I get this no matter which 
> command I try to run.
> ** 
> *lease help, extremely frustrated.*
> *I have installed the server without issue and the agent on another 
> server without issue. I am stuck like chuck.*
>
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On 15/06/13 02:15 PM, gfdaddy14@gmail.com wrote:
> Forgot to mention that I am ne to LInux also...
>  
> Do you have an example?
the path that was mentioned by Peter is a set of directory paths
separated by ":" where binaries are searched when invoked. it is set
in
the environment variable $PATH.

with puppet, it is considered a good practice to set a global $PATH
value that corresponds to your system with the below snippet (the
capital letter at the beginning of "Exec" is important).

Exec {
  path => ''/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin'',
}

-- 
Gabriel Filion

Greetings, Earthlings.  I just subscribed.

I haven''t actually tried out Puppet yet, but I just downloaded the
Learn
Puppet VM.

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 9:11:17 AM UTC-7, gfda...@gmail.com wrote:
> *bash: puppetca: command not found      * I get this no matter which 
> command I try to run.
>    *^---- "Bourne Again Shell"*
>
In your home directory on your Linux box are some "hidden" files and 
folders, whose names all start with a dot or period: "."

The files aren''t really hidden, it''s just that there is a
convention that
documents whose names start with dots aren''t displayed unless you 
specifically request such display.

In a terminal program such as xterm, gterm or kterm, you can see all of 
your documents, including your "Dot Files", with the "ls -a"
command.

Most likely you already have a document called ".bash_profile".  You
may as
well have documents called ".profile" or ".bashrc".

When you''re using a terminal program such as gterm, there is a command 
interpreter running inside the terminal that searches for and executes each 
command when you type its after the "$" prompt.  For example:

   $ emacs

... will launch the emacs text editor.

However there are several places where these programs can be placed.  For 
regular (non-administrative) users, these are generally:

   /bin
   /usr/bin
   /usr/local/bin

You don''t want bash to have to search your entire hard drive to look
for
executable files.  Instead, bash will search a preset list of directories 
(folders).  That preset list is in your PATH environment variable.  You can 
find out what its present value is:

   $ echo $PATH

Placing "$" in the front of a shell variable will result in the value 
stored in the variable being substituted for where you named the variable 
itself.

Each directory in your PATH is delimited (or separated) by a colon 
character - ":".

You don''t generally want to remove existing items from PATH.  Instead,
you
usually want to add new items to its list.  bash will search the list from 
beginning to end, so if two programs with the exact same name are found in 
two different directories in your path, the one whose directory is named 
before the other will be the one that actually gets executed.

It''s common for one to install personally-developed programs in a
directory
called "bin" in one''s home directory.  It''s path can
be abbreviated as
"~/bin".  "~" is shorthand for "my home
directory".  You can prepend it to
your PATH like so:

   $ export PATH=~/bin:"$PATH"

The double-quotes are needed only if there are space characters already 
present in your $PATH.  If you''re sure there won''t be any
spaces, you won''t
need the quotes.

On your own box, substitute the directory where you placed the puppet 
executables for "~/bin" in the command line above.  If bash stops 
complaining, then you got your new $PATH right.  Now place the same command 
line in either ".profile", ".bash_profile" or
".bashrc".  However, leave
off the initial "$" shell prompt:

   # ~/.profile

    export PATH=/path/to/puppet/executables:"$PATH"

One can - and often does - have shell variables that aren''t also 
environment variables:

export TERM=vt220    # $TERM is an environment variable

myname=mike    # $myname is a shell variable, but it''s not in the 
environment

The difference between the two is that the environment is inherited by 
subprocesses.  That is, if you launch a new program from within bash, that 
new program will also know what your $PATH is.

Google for "UNIX shell tutorial".  There are lots of really good
tutorials
out there.

There are other UNIX shells, other than bash.  Bash is a Free Software 
clone of the original AT&T Bourne shell "/bin/sh", but with lots
of
features from the Berkeley C Shell "/bin/csh" added to it.

Ever Faithful,

Mike Crawford
mdcrawford@gmail.com
CyberneticEntomologist on GitHub and the PuppetLabs sites

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