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...rentiating between files, folders and links). However puppet seems not to provide that facility at the moment - unless there''s a standard ruby function that I know nothing of. I''d be grateful for any suggestions as to how to achieve my aims with the current puppet. cheers, John Dubery

...elow. A pair of manifest files are attached - * soundfonts.pp caused the failure in the transcripts * tgz-etc.pp caused a failure with puppetmaster --verbose but not with puppetmaster --debug What''s the best plan for avoiding the timeout errors - or is there a bug to fix? cheers John Dubery ==================== puppetmaster: ... debug: Allowing authenticated client gateway(192.168.1.4) access to fileserver.describe debug: mount[soundfonts]: Describing /soundfonts/Frank%20Wen/FluidR3122501.zip_expanded/FluidR3%20GS.SF2 for gateway notice: Initializing values for /mnt/server_raid/file...

Hi, I''m still using Fedora Core 5 (and expect to for the next couple of months). Which is the nest method for updating my puppet/puppetmaster setup. Using FC6 or Fedora 7 RPMs seems likely, but are there any gotchas that make a different mechanism better. cheers John Dubery

Hi, I would find it very useful if puppet were able to replicate passwords for specified users from a master PC (the puppetmaster would do me fine, though I suspect this may not suit everyone). That would make changing passwords on my small Linux network a little easier. cheers John Dubery