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The language docs have been languishing for ages, so out of disgust I consolidated the LanguageStructures and LanguageTutorial pages into a new, rewritten LanguageTutorial[1] page. Let''s consider this page the single page for all language explanation, and let''s do what we can to enhance and correct this page over time. I think the existence of two pages confused

Can I use puppet to ensure that a file includes certain text but not be required to maintain the entire file? For example, I would like /etc/modprobe.conf to contain the following lines but the file will also contain lines that are system dependent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Disable IPV6 alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off

Hi, everyone -- I downloaded puppet and have been playing with it. I''m using the RPM''s for RHE4 created by David (mentioned on the install page: http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/yum/rhel4/) with RHE''s ruby 1.8.1-7: ruby-1.8.1-7.EL4.8 ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.EL4.8 ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.EL4.8 I''m sure this is an easy one; all the same, I''m stumped. Please

Hi, I''m not using puppet in a standard way (ie. in a server/client configuration), just the standalone ''puppet --use-nodes'' command. I''m having problems with the directory structure of modules and using the import feature. My directory infrastructure looks like this: /srv/puppet/facter/... /srv/puppet/manifests/site.pp /srv/puppet/manifests/libs/file.pp

fact loads: I use facter to search the rsync path and then i write this sudoers line: Cmnd_Alias BACKUPCOMMANDS = /usr/bin/rsync I call puppet like this: puppetd --factsync --server=xxx.yyy.61.131 --waitforcert 60 --test the recipe is: sudoensure_line { sudobackupcommands: ligne => "Cmnd_Alias BACKUPCOMMANDS = $rsyncpath",

If I use the ''file'' type to sync a file where the parent directory doesn''t exist the sync fails. According to the puppet docs "Puppet will autorequire any parent directories that are being managed". Am i missing something? Example: file { "/tmp/dhcp/dhcpd.include": source => "/tmp/dhcpd.include", } In

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

I''ve been hacking at puppet for the past week or two, and came up with some great stuff, but I''m wondering if there''s a way to tie it all together To create a virtual machine for our company''s QA environment, I''m currently doing 3 things: #create a vm node vmsvr2 inherits default { include vmserver vmserver::vm {

So I''ve done some Mac OS X pkgs for the latest Facter and Puppet, as well as a combined mpkg for them both. Jeff McCune and I are doing a fair bit of testing on them this week in preparation for MacWorld, so I wasn''t going to upload them to the official site for another few days, but they''re looking pretty good. http://explanatorygap.net/puppet/Facter_1.3.8.pkg.zip

I''m having a hard time shipping off complete puppet manifests/facts/files within a single versioned container to end nodes because of how strict puppet is about not allowing relative paths, even with runtime command line options. (I can not use the puppet/puppetmaster client/server model because of company policies, organization divisions and personnel issues.) When I export a complete

Hey thanks for the new version, but I seem to be having some troubles. I have a number of schedules defined in my configuration, something like: schedule { once_a_day: period => daily, repeat => 1, } Using 0.20.0 of the server I get: err: Could not retrieve configuration: Duplicate definition: schedule[once_a_day] is already defined in file

Hi there, After quite a long time out of puppet business I''m back, and the first thing I''m doing is rephrasing my puppet manifests using modules. I started with the NTP module (a classic, I guess). I have (more or less) the following: In modules/ntp/manifests/init.pp: $ntp_localtime = "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid" class ntp { ... some stuff using the

I recently tidied up a class/definition combo that sets /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net. This failed: define issuefile($path) { file { issue: owner => root, group => root, mode => 0644, content => template("issue_conf") } } class issue { issuefile { "issue": path => "/etc/issue" } } class

I''m almost afraid to ask because this probably sticks out like a sore thumb on the wiki somewhere, and I''m just not seeing it. But I have a bunch of files with the same owner/mode. Is there a way to somehow collapse these, so that all I repeat is the file name? Example: file { "/opt/test/1": owner => "jtan", group =>

Hello again, all: When downloading a file from the puppetmaster''s fileserver, like so: ==========SNIP========== define install_file ($mode = 0644, $owner = ''root'', $group = ''root'') { file { "${name}": source => [ "puppet://${puppetserver}/dist/files/${name}_${operatingsystem}",

Not sure if this is another issue cropping up with 0.24.1 but I''m getting the following: info: Loading fact raid /etc/puppet/facts/location.rb:5: private method `split'' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter.rb:510:in `call'' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter.rb:510:in `value'' from

Hello, i am using for my management some class dependency like this: unix => linux => debian => etch (linux inherits unix, debian inherits linux, etch inherits debian...) also linuxvservers inherits debian and linuxvservers::host inherits linuxvservers then my node is node myhost { include debian include linuxvservers::host } i have an issue as i have a file

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 ]

I have some facter file to distribute before running puppet on the platform. The problem is : how can i send the facter local.rb file so the rest of the .pp file take into account the new facts created ? ex: i have sudopath as a facter fact and one sudoers class that need that sudopath to work. How do you model that ? it seems puppet would have to rerun after the new local.rb is downloaded

Hello, still upgrading to .20.1 and i have another issue that puppet does not regonize anymore my definitions, i use some ensure lines definition in a function.pp file and since then i am unable to make it work. puppetmasterd tells me this: Unknown function sudoensure_line in file /etc/puppet/manifests/./classes/backup.pp the import of the function is my 2 line of the site.pp and i