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Hi, I''m absolutely new to centralized server management, sorry sorry in advance for any stupid remarks. Looking on the puppet documentation, I mainly find a lot of info about how to manage the config files, but nothing about centralized control. So I''m wandering if I''m looking a the right software package for my needs. I want to be able to do the following from a

Anyone care to share how they handle yum updates? We have a script that runs yum update nightly and then emails us the results when there are packages to be updated. Ideally I''d like a way to keep a class in site.pp that can be uncommented to run yum update -y after the update list is reviewed by a human. Tim

Hi, I''m new to puppet so apologises if this is obvious and only proves that I haven''t read the manual from cover to cover (oops, did I really to admit that! ;-) In the DebianRecipies example it uses the variable to determine the relative path to some template files. The variable has been set up at the node level however, there''s the possibility that it hasn''t been set before use (go back to jail, do not pass go!) and therefore I''d like check for it at...

Hi, I was talking to Luke today about managing manifests and related files, and he suggested that I post to the list.. What would be nice (and what I''ve use in in-house systems I''ve used previously) is to have a way to dynamically include manifest fragments at runtime. Lets assume that you''re setting up bugzilla using puppet. In the ''main'' manifest