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After upgrading my puppetmaster to 0.24.7 from 0.24.6 i am getting the following errors in the puppetmaster logs. Any help would be appreciated. Thu Dec 18 16:11:39 +1100 2008 Puppet (err): Could not store configs: undefined method `environment='' for #<Puppet::Rails::Host:0xb72c0c38> I do not use environment''s and they are not defined anywhere in the puppet.conf

I have a closed-source 32bit database application running on a 64bit CentOS 5.2 system which is running very well however i am looking at developing some python applications that require access to the data and the vendor only provides a 32bit c library. So while attempting to utilize the library in python with ctypes it became obvious that the 64bit python cannot use the 32bit c library. So

...mething one should still be using? I''m having some problems running it on RHEL4 and I''m sure I have read something about puppet taking care of its own directories automatically. Here are a selection of problems This entry stops puppet from running, (reported by Ben Abnormaliti@clivepeeters.com.au) file { ''/var/lib/puppet/facts'': loglevel => ''debug'', backup => ''false'' } The following entries have some dodgy permissions, but frankly many of the others are quite different to how they are created by...

Can I use puppet to ensure that a file includes certain text but not be required to maintain the entire file? For example, I would like /etc/modprobe.conf to contain the following lines but the file will also contain lines that are system dependent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Disable IPV6 alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off

When installing Mandrake 9.0 with the higher security option you cannot ping any of it interfaces, localhost (127.0.0.1) included. All other connections to the system are fine, e.g. ssh, www, squid, etc. "shorewall clear" doesn''t help. Does anyone know how to turn this off for at least localhost and eth1?? Yours truly, Ben

Should this work? # --- remove any cronjobs that are not managed by puppet. resources { "cron": purge => true } I get the following error. Resources[cron]: Failed to generate additional resources: You must specify a title for objects of type Puppet::Type::Cron Ben

I install puppet as part of a Fedora and CentOS kickstart install and this use to provide a nicely configured client immediately after the first reboot from the kickstart completion. However with 0.22.3 i now see the following error on puppets 1st run, as a result the client is not configured. The problem is easily rectified by connecting to each client and restarting puppet. I have also

...} In this example the /tmp/dhcp/ directory does not exist so i would expect puppet to create it. Error returned (puppetd --debug): Could not set file on ensure: No such file or directory - /tmp/dhcp/dhcpd.include.puppettmp at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/bootserver.pp:35 err: /boot.xx.clivepeeters.com.au/bootserver/File[/tmp/dhcp/dhcpd.include]/ensure: change from absent to file failed: Could not set file on ensure: No such file or directory - /tmp/dhcp/dhcpd.include.puppettmp at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/bootserver.pp:35 If I attempt to create a require for the directory I also g...

For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. "sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start" return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some

What shorewall rules would be required to allow the OSPF routing protocol to pass fw<->loc? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Ben

While upgrading to 0.24.1 i encountered some dependency failures. It can be reproduced with the following snippet. file { "puppet-test": path => "/tmp/puppet.test", ensure => file } exec { "/bin/true 1": require => File["puppet-test"] } exec { "/bin/true 2": require => File["/tmp/puppet.test"] } 0.23.2 handles

I am attempting to use David Schmitt''s mysql module from GIT to manage a mysql server but i have been unsuccessful so far. Each attempt to use one of the ''mysql_'' functions is returned with the error. Failed to retrieve current state of resource i have attached the output from the tests included in the module in the hope that david or someone might be able to

I have a manifest that looks for changes in files recursively and restarts a service should it find any changes. Problem is that i ''ignore'' some files that i do not wish to monitor and ones that change occasionally and when they change it modifies the timestamp on the directory which in turn triggers puppet to restart the service. So is there a way to monitor only file

while setting up a squid module i came across a problem trying to use a template of "squid.conf". the following text in "squid.conf" raises an error from puppet, without this text the template works. refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320

I have recently notice puppet failing to restart failed services and found the following when i run puppetd in debug. debug: Service[ntpd](provider=redhat): Executing ''/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd status'' /usr/lib64/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util.rb:300: warning: fork terminates thread at /usr/lib64/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/external/event-loop/event-loop.rb:123 debug:

Has anyone attempted to get openvpn to work with puppets certificates? I am thinking that it should work without to much fuss. My current openvpn implementation uses the following certificates and beside these are what i think would be the appropriate puppet ones. openvpn server: ca /etc/openvpn/ca.crt -> /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem cert /etc/openvpn/fqdn.crt ->

Attached is a class for vmware guests that i am expanding however i am getting an error when i try to extend the ''require'' parameter on an ''Exec'' to install the tools. The error is err: Could not retrieve configuration: Parameter ''require'' is already set on Exec[setup_vmware_tools] by vmware::guest at

I am having a little trouble getting my head around this so any help would be appreciated. I have just signed up a new service and have been allocated the following subnet which gives me 30 usable IP addresses. 210.15.xxx.192/27 The connection is made via pppoe which works fine and the connection creates ppp0 and assigns 210.15.xxx.193. Now I want to use 4 IP''s in a DMZ and the reset

what is the best way to handle package conflicts between classes? for example, below, i have the following two classes defined and both include a "package { "perl-LDAP" }", so when used separately they work as expected but when i need to assign both classes to a node i get a conflict. error: "Duplicate definition: Package[perl-LDAP] is already defined" thanks

i thought i would run up a fedora 8 installation and take a look around, my default kickstart installation includes puppet which shouldn''t be a problem however the puppet client fails with Certificates were not trusted: hostname was not match with the server certificate The cause is obvious, the hostname of my puppetmaster is ''puppet1.mydomain.com'' and