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I''m trying to create a function that I can call in a manifest like this: $doc = doc(''apache::service'') In the function, I want it to actually find the filename for the ''apache::service'' class... from there, I''m going to run some code that will generate the puppet-doc in text format, and then return it in a variable. Ultimately this is so

Hi There, I am trying to do the following using puppet 1. Create a dir call mydir 2. Download a file from internet using Exec 3. Change the mode of the file 3. Install it and ensure running and service is enabled. 4. Delete it the installer file. When I do this until 3 rd step I am fine. But when I create the file resource again for deleting the installer files, it says it is already

Hi, I have alfresco .bin installer file for linux distribution which i want to automate using puppet. While installing alfresco on linux ,usually i need to provide a number of parameters such as java_home, db home, alfresco home or tomcat port etc. Now i want to install same .bin installer using puppet but not getting how can i provide same runtime argument in puppet installation. Can

Lets take the example, I am having a jboss-4.2.3 installers as a .tar file. In general to install jboss, i ll 1. untar the jboss-4.2.3 into a prefefined folder (opt/server/jbossas/) into multiple servers 2. untar the openjdk into a preferined path (/opt/software/java)set the path in the bash.profile 3. Create server profile in the place where jboss is installed 4. Start the server. Lets say

I am working on building a facter tag based node classifier similar to https://github.com/jordansissel/puppet-examples/tree/master/nodeless-puppet/. However, I have run into an issue where I cannot use puppet''s require file ability to push the yaml file containing the facts file to the client because it would require two runs of puppet to pickup changes. Consequently, I have written into th...

Howdy. I feel like I am missing something really simply with regards to the way that Puppet works and I am wondering if someone can point me in the write direction. I have written a class that downloads, uncompresses, compiles, and installs Python from source. So far so good. The problem is that it only needs to do this once, when Python is not already in place (or some other custom

Hello Everyone, I''m looking for a way to install packages from source via puppet, I was able to locate maybe 5 posts on this subject which is very strange, as I would expect people to still use ./configure with their own customized options. For example, I need to compile Curl with c-ares support, for that I need to set an option for ./configure but can''t find a way to do it.

This is pretty ugly. I''m using puppet to install Oracle, ie an exec{} wrapped around: /u01/oracle_extract/linux.x64_11gR2_database/database/runInstaller -silent -responseFile /etc/oracle_response.rsp The problem is that the damn installer backgrounds itself and returns control to the shell. I tried putting the above command in a script, followed by a wait command, but that