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I''m trying to change the password complexity requirements in pam.d/system-auth using augeas. I can append the values (lcredit=-1, ucredit=-1, etc) onto the correct place, but if another value is already present (i.e. lcredit=-2), the onlyif match statement doesn''t seem to support checking regular expressions inside of strings. How do I check that any numeric value exists in the

...ioned to me that the p-value for the intercept is the confidence in the estimate of the intercept, whereas the remaining entries are the confidence in each strain being different from the reference / intercept Note the contrasts setting is contr.treatment. Any help would be appreciated Andrew McDonagh, PhD Candidate, Department of Infectious Diseases, Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN a.mcdonagh at imperial.ac.uk

Hmmm.... So I was just trying the extlookup function that comes with puppet 2.6.1. It now lets you do this: $version = extlookup("rsyslog_version", "present", "packages") which, according to the documentation: # This will look for a version configured in packages.csv and then in the rest as configured # by $extlookup_precedence if it''s not found anywhere

Does facter support NICs that are not named ethX? I happen to use custom names on my systems. Just a quick look at the code I don''t see why it wouldn''t but the behavior I am seeing is very different. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To

I was wondering how to configure the puppet clients to only listen, not to periodically pull configs down from the puppetmaster. I''d rather push the configs out from the puppetmaster with puppetrun... At a guess I need to set runinterval to 0 in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I read and find a way (well, there seems to be several equal implementations) to collect the ssh keys of machines. However they all give only the choice to choose between the key formats. But is there a way to collect both keys of a machine, the rsa _and_ the dss key (and maybe the rsa1 too)? I didn''t find a way to solve this as

Hello, As I''ve been building up my puppet infrastructure, I''ve started using puppet certs for all of my services that require ssl. Usually this is in the form of links: file { "/opt/syslog-ng/etc/ca.d/b2457b50.0": require => Package["syslog-ng"], ensure => link, target =>

packages.debian.org is lagging in terms of what it''s showing, but.... $ rmadison -u debian {puppet,facter} | grep unstable puppet | 0.25.4-1 | unstable | source, all facter | 1.5.7-1 | unstable | source, all they''re both up there now. -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group.

Hello ! I''m trying to implement a Nagios solution based on David Schmitt''s Complete Config. But I the following error when running puppetd -t - v : notice: Starting catalog run err: //Node[monitoring]/nagios::target/Nagios::Host[]/File[/conf.d/ _host.cfg]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set present on ensure: No such file or directory - /conf.d/

I downloaded the puppet-dashboard.git from http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-dashboard and did the installation in my ubuntu lucid puppet server following the steps in "Installation". Now I can run it fine using the WEBrick like this root@sys-ubuntu { ~/git/puppet-dashboard }$ ./script/server -e production => Booting WEBrick => Rails 2.3.5 application starting on

I have following trouble on x86_64 machines. On i686 machines all ok. [awasilyev@hyperic ~]$ sudo puppetd -t err: Could not create puppet: Could not find a default provider for cron warning: Not using cache on failed catalog warning: Configuration could not be instantiated: Could not find a default provider for cron [awasilyev@hyperic ~]$ ls /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/cron

Hello everybody, I would like to know if there is a plugin that allow us to manage advances ACL on a linux system (Debian ) Because for the moment,the idea to use "exec setfacl" to set my ACLs sounds a little bit "dirty" Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hey All, I''m looking for a way to get puppet to define nagios hostgroupescalations. Is this possible and if so, what is the syntax? Thanks, Matt Delves -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

...a contract->perm position in LA, close to LAX near Boeing and the other defense companies. The role is fairly senior and involves mostly Linux and Unix systems. Puppet experience is a win, also is OpenBSD for routing/firewalling. More details to be given off list if you contact me. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe...

Dear R users,  I hope you can help me as you have done before.  I was wondering if I can make some of the points on my graph a different colour and symbol? Some of my soil samples are enriched and I wanted them to be shown with a red triangle and the samples which are not enriched I wanted to show with a blue square. I can't seem to find a way of doing this if there is a way?  My script:  

Dear R users, I am quite desperate for help. I haven't used R in a couple of years and I'm currently finishing a masters project and running out of time to figure out my problem. I have read and tried the examples on many websites, in your forums and R Help yet still can't manage to change the x axis. I am using R 2.8.0 on windows.  I'm sure there must be a way to do this as many

Hi everyone, Just wanted to tell you a little story. We''ve been enthusiastic puppet users since about a year ago here at the Geographic Institute of the University of Zürich. But we won''t use the zpool type ever again. Its just not worth it. Here''s what happened: . one of our servers lost knowledge about one of its zfs pools . puppet didn''t find the pool

We are looking to hire a full time (or possibly a consultant) in Boston with experience in AWS and Puppet (or Chef :) http://www.fiksu.com/company/careers/cloud-operations-manager Any good leads on other places to look for someone like that? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, I was wondering what people out there are doing to monitor puppetd in large environments. I''d love to hear what the best practices are around this. We have a few hundred hosts and are currently looking at the timestamps on the yaml files in /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/ on puppetmasters to make sure all clients are alive. Is it true that for a given client the fact file on the

hi, i am trying to run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl -d, but i was end with exec timeout. I cannot find any think on google. Have anyone experience with this? It works, when I run it normally from shell. this is my exec resource. { "vmwaretools_config": subscribe => [ Package["VMwareTools"] ], refreshonly => true, path =>