similar to: User manging via puppet

Hi, I have a class to add users to all the host servers. We are in the process to have a coexisting user which belongs in NIS & as well as /etc/passwd. We have NIS clients (yp running) on all host servers. So when running puppet is fails to add or modify user, bcos the user already exists in NIS. Eg: A user pcruise is an existing NIS user. When using useradd or

Hi, I have installed Puppet puppet-0.23.2-1.el4 & puppet-server-0.23.2-1.el4. Now trying to configure. I have a basic config which changes the sudo permission of the file. Currently I am using the puppet server as client. Now I wanted to add all my hosts some linux some unix. So was looking for a config syntax whioh can create groups. Like IT = [ host-1, host2, shost3 ]

Hi I am trying to push populate /home & subdirectories from the puppet server to all the Linux clients. I managed this with cfengine using rsync. But I am not sure how do I achieve this in puppet, do we have any inbuilt function for this. Also, is there a function for userdel like for useradd (user) groupadd(group). Any suggestion is appreciated. -- Deepak

I am using Puppet 0.23.2 I am trying to add a new client -- v26.domain.com This is what I am doing from client side - v26.doamin.com #puppetd --test info: Creating a new certificate request for v26.domain.com info: Creating a new SSL key at /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys/v26.domain.com.pem warning: peer certificate won''t be verified in this SSL session. notice: No

Hi, I am using file function to copy a directory & its content to few servers. I do it below way. I am not sure whether file uses sync mode or does a copy of every file over & over when something changes. Bcos when running the puppet daemon using puppetd -test it takes a while. Where can I find a list of function like file, user group etc & what args to pass file {

Hi, I wanted to know whats the ideal way to install puppet client ie the below packages on Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) system -- 2.4.20-8smp I get the dependencies issue with the below(bcso they are for RHEL4 which is 2.6 kernel). What would be an ideal way, where can I get the tar source of the compatible version of puppet/facter/ruby for Redhat 9

Hi, I have Asterisk-1.2.18 install with FreePBX & more than 75 extnsion, daily I come accross an issue & try resolving them its either user learning curve or my ignorance. But, I dont know what to say regarding this issue. I have my Dial Plan for internal users to have a 3 Digit Extensions. So instance my Ext is 239 & someone dials the main #, its gets the

Hi, I have Redhat 9 & RHEL 4.2 with puppet clients installed. When is use puppetd -test the updates get effected, but when when running them as daemon mode nothing happens. ## Nothing Happens - no change is detected /etc/init.d/puppet status puppetd (pid 15538) is running... ## When running manually puppetd -test the changes from server gets updated. Is there any

Hi, I ma using Asterisk 1.2.18 & FreePBX 2.2.1. I have assigned every users in office with Polycom with 2 extensions as below 555 8555 I have configured Follow-me to ring when the users doesn't picks the phone on line 1(555) after 10 seconds & then ring the line 2(8555). But this is not a standard telephony which I have been advised to change like below. If someone calls

Hi, We have a PRI connection & when its was on test networks we had echo problems withoutside line. So I bought a TE212P card resolve the echo problem. Which did to an extent. Its using asterisk 1.2.18 & RHEL4-Update 4. But now when we are live, there is a terrible echo between 2 SIP calls. If I call the same extension from outside the voice is clear. I am not sure whats

Hi, I am trying to get puppet working on Ubuntu as client. I am trying to add user''s & copy some home directory. It worked fine for user creation but not for home directory(I have posted this issue already). But, the issue is I have added some functions to this ubuntu node but when running puppetd -test from client it gets the same old class. It doesn''t get

Anyone ever migrated the puppetca to a different host? What are the steps that are involved?

Is there a way to tell the puppetmaster that I want to import all modules rather than listing each one individually?

file { "/var/log/syslog": target => "/var/log/messages" } generates the following error: err: //henson/stanford/syslog/file=/var/log/syslog: Failed to retrieve current state: undefined method `should'' for false:FalseClass

Hello, I am currently experiencing a bit of a quandry with how to specify default configuration applications to generic nodes. Here is an example setup: Classes: Class A Class B inherits Class A Class C inherits Class B Problem: I have unique hosts (nodes) X and Y and a bunch of other standard hosts. I would like X and Y to be able to override attributes in Class C (thus inherit class C) but

In the normal override method, you can change the value of a parameter, but can you unset a parameter? file { "/etc/somefile": mode => 644, owner => "dude" } File ["/etc/somefile"] { mode => unset } ??

Hello Puppet users, I had talked with Luke about this scenario and was wondering how others would/are handling something like this. Imagine a scenario where all servers will have a specific postfix configuration except for a server or two or three. So, you want to define a file "/etc/postfix/main.cf" and specify the source from your dist tree. But for those exceptional servers,

Hello community, We are running puppetmaster 0.22.3 with 45 servers attached and we are seeing a lot of messages that say: (err): Could not describe /ssh/sshd_config.RedHat: End of file reached: We were seeing a lot of this with 0.22.1 as well. Interestingly, during the stretch where we were running 0.22.2 (most of April until 2 days ago) we didn''t see this error at all or very

Anyone using the rrdgraph report on the puppetmaster on Debian stable? I''m trying to get this working and not getting far. I even took rrdtool and librrd0-dev from backports and I still get the same problem. It seems that the rrdfiles are being somewhat created, but nevertheless, the puppetmaster isn''t happy and keeps spewing: err: Report rrdgraph failed: Could not create

Hello folks, I''ve blended/updated the Glossary of Terms (<http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/GlossaryOfTerms>). It seems the definition of "manifests" is a bit different amongst members. Some people consider a "manifest" to be a configuration file written in puppet, e.g. any .pp file. But at my organization, we''ve considered the totality