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...lly host static websites for people, but have been asked to so so for a small number of sites. I decided to use this opportunity to get into puppet. Based on the recipe at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/DebianApache2Recipe I''ve created the following: 1. A class called reahlapache, which inherits from apache2. It adds files into /etc/apache2/conf.d, makes sure all the modules we typically need are present in the apache installation (using apache2::module for this), etc. In other words node-specific apache stuff specific to our environment. 2. The reahlapache class al...

Hi there, If I have a manifest with, say: node default { ..stuff.. } node mymachine { ..stuff.. } What would happen on mymachine: will the stuff in default be executed *as well as* the stuff in default, or only the stuff in mymachine? And, if the latter, should I move global stuff just to global scope outside of nodes? Thanks -Iwan

Hi there, What do you people do when distributing files that only root should have read access to? What we''ve done is to put them in /etc/puppet/files (which is configured to be a location served by puppet''s file server). Then we let puppet own everything underneath /etc/puppet/files, and make those sensitive files readable only by the puppet user. In Ubuntu (which we use),

Hi there, We have a fake environment in which we test software and config before rolling it out to prod. Here, we have a fake puppetmasterd running, serving the new config under test. But we''re having trouble with certificates. It is possible to specify via config what fqdn the puppet ca should use for itself? We need this to be a different (faked) fqdn than the real name of the

Hi there, If I create a user, there seems to be no way to restrict it from being able to log in. Is there a simple way in which I can extend it to do that, or will I have to build my own define? It would also be useful to specify the user''s ssh keys and authorized keys, for example. I am also wondering how much effort it would be to add another provider for user (such as