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...#39;'t know how much that will be. So, if you need my help, use email, at least for now. -- I happen to feel that the degree of a person''s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. -- Lisa Alther --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com

Hello, still upgrading to .20.1 and i have another issue that puppet does not regonize anymore my definitions, i use some ensure lines definition in a function.pp file and since then i am unable to make it work. puppetmasterd tells me this: Unknown function sudoensure_line in file /etc/puppet/manifests/./classes/backup.pp the import of the function is my 2 line of the site.pp and i

Hi, I need to set a variable to true or false if a certain file exists. I need to use it in a case statement like: case $is_installed { false: { exec... file... service... } true: { package... } } Is it possible...? I searched for the syntax, but I can''t find an appropriate example... -- Med venlig hilsen Juri Rischel Jensen Fab:IT ApS Vesterbrogade 50 DK-1620

Hi All, In my companies environment, we have multiple sites in multiple geographic locations, sometimes with high latency between the sites. I''m trying to come up with a solution that could provide puppet infrastructure to all sites nodes. ----a few assumptions--- - puppet manifest / configuration is fetched from a centralized version control system. - store db is needed (ssh keys,

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to deal with multiple environments/tiers? For instance, we have several environments ( production, dev, qa, etc.. ) and within each environment, different tiers ( web, data, app, etc ). Each tier is a different IP network segment, so all the hosts in each tier have different configurations for certain things like resolv.conf, ntp.conf and so on. We do

Because here in Puppet-land we''re all about self-reference and recursion, and because I actually have to give a talk at RubyConf next weekend about abusing self-reference, and because parent nodes aren''t considered harmful in my own world, I give you: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000982.html I think it manages to somehow be both on- and off-topic at the same