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Hi, I''ve setup the puppetmaster to start 5 processes each listening on a different port, with an Apache server in front. This works fine for existing clients, however when I try to add a new client (ie. a newly installed machine with no previous puppet configuration) I get this error: err: Could not request certificate: sslv3 alert handshake failure error Any ideas what''s

I get errors like this randomly on some of my puppet clients: puppetd[7303]: (//munin/Config-file[muninnode]/File[/etc/m unin/munin-node.conf]) Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://puppet.hq.eso.org/modules/munin/munin-node.c onf: at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:41 The relevant definition from /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp is: # Generic

I have a script transferring some backup files onto a USB stick, which has limited space. I use rsync 3.0.5 with the following command: rsync -av --delete-before /local/backups/dir/backup1_todaysdate /local/backups/dir/backup2_todaysdate /local/backups/dir/backup3_todaysdate /USBstick/backups/dir The USB stick runs out of space if more than 1 backup set is put on it, so I'd assumed that by