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...ngly enough, it''s true: in less than 24 hours, a new release. This fixes a small but important bug that caused $hostname to always be nil when running puppet instead of puppetd. -- A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. --Alfred E. Wiggam --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com

After some through I have decided that I don''t want to keep all my configuration variables in LDAP; too many variables and the variables are too specific to manage efficiently. What I want to keep in ldap are some general class definitions, like samba-bdc, and samba-dev-shares, etc. So I build a manifest like the one below; but there are a few problems. First, I can''t be sure

Hi all, The docs say: "Note that all defined types support automatically all metaparameters." But when I try (with Puppet 0.24.5 on Centos 5.2, courtesy of the dlutter packages) the following: define unzip (...) { exec { ... } if $alias { Exec[...]{ alias +> $alias } } unzip { ....: alias => "..." } As is inferred by the LanguageTutorial

Thanks everyone for your quick responses to my questions. I''m trying to get templates working. I want to pull the template down from the puppet server, then use it. It looks like the require parameter is not being enforced when using the content parameter so the template can''t be found. This doesn''t work: file { "/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf" :

I have a few different groupings of hosts, and I am wondering what is the best way to organize the node configuration for them. I have a few machines that are VMware hosts, a bunch of VMware guests, and the main admin server which runs a bunch of stuff like puppetmasterd. I''ve got a bunch of classes/*.pp which define configuration for sudo, yum, java, etc. Right now I just have

Welcome all, Resources can depend one from each other, and failure of a required resource prevent the dependants from being run. But how to trap these failures and handle them? Is there any way to e.g. set a variable $error_happened to "true" if some promise about the resource couldn''t be kept? Maybe even there is a way to capture the error string? Some

Good day, First off, I''m a complete puppet newbie, this openvpn recipe is pretty much the first puppet work I''ve done so be gentle :-) Secondly, the openvpn setup for Debian (and systems based on Debian) allows each openvpn network (tunnel) to be specified using a separate config file for each: /etc/openvpn/<vpn>.conf Each tunnel can be then stopped/started/restarted

Hello everyone, A long time ago, I posted the Stanford Best Practices and I''ve gone through and updated it today. I''d like to have people go through it and see if we can strip out some Stanford specific stuff and tag this as an official best practice. I think an official best practice will be important as more and more people consider making shareable modules, etc (mostly

Hi all, I fear this discussion will quickly devolve into a recursive flame- fest, but it needs to be broached, so here we go. Note that I kind of think this is more of dev topic than users, but I want to make sure everyone knows the conversation is happening and can easily participate. This is also likely to be the first of a series of conversations I''ll be starting to try to