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Group - I''m putting a presentation together for $work (a large .gov) and I want to make sure I get my facts (pun intended) straight ... Are the following steps for Facter-Client-Server interaction correct (I have a feeling not): 1. Client puppet run is initiated (via regular schedule, puppetrun, or puppetd) 2. The client contacts the server and downloads any custom facts it does not

Greetings - Maybe I''m a bit slow, but I''ve been trying to understand how to use a module for the better part of a day and I''m not getting it. Here''s what I''ve done: Using puppet 0.23.2 1. Downloaded the shorewall module from David Schmitt''s git repo (Thanks David!!!!) and placed it in the directory /var/lib/puppet/modules (using the rpm

Hello - Is the following a configuration issue (which is usually the case) or a bug? I''m trying to ensure a local user is present in a NIS environment using the following recipie: class dduck_add { user { "dduckl": ensure => present, uid => 60030, gid => "100", groups =>

Greetings - I''ve just started testing Puppet and have a couple of questions: 1. Is there a way to dynamically change a configuraion file that is sent to nodes? For example, I want to modify /etc/hosts to have the hostname and ip address set dynamically - the hosts file shoule look like: 12.34.56.78 node1.example.com 22.35.66.99 server1.example.com But I don''t want to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all We''re currently looking at the next release of Facter and the future direction of the tool. I''d like to try and prompt some discussions on facter and what people want from it. As a starter here''s some (although not all) of the ideas we''ll be working through: 1. Namespaces - add a namespace or tiered

Greetings - Does anyone have plans for a Puppet BOF at LISA this year? I''ve seen some talk on the LOPSA configmgmt list about Config Mangement BOF''s, but nothing focused on Puppet. Please, Please, mom, can we have a BOF, PUHLEESE!!!! Luke - I hope you''ll be there so I can at least buy you dinner and beers/drinks for making my SA life easier with Puppet. Cheers, Jeff

Shorewall (IP Tables frontend - www.shorewall.net) has been kind of a headache in trying to move forward with puppet - we just haven''t found a clean way to manage the "rules" file. With that in mind - would it be possible to create a "shorewall_rule" type? The rules file is a simple file with space/tab delimited fields: (I can provide a detailed explanation of each

Can anyone point me to a "Writing Puppet recipes for Dummies" doc? I''m trying to do a basic probe using lspci to see if I have a Qlogic HBA installed on the machine, and if so, install the Qlogic scli package. Here''s a shell script of what I''m trying to do: #!/bin/bash vendor=1077 # QLogic model=2422 # 24xx hba /sbin/lspci -n -d $vendor:$model | grep

My head hurts from trying to figure this out for the past several hours . . . I want to determine what provider to use based on a fact (thanks for the suse version fact btw) but I ain''t gettin it: What''s wrong? Am I going down the completely wrong path? Is there a better way? # suse-yum.pp case $suse_repo_name { #sled10-i586: {Package{ provider => rug}} sled10-i586: