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"The important thing to understand about how schedules are currently implemented in Puppet is that they can only be used to stop an element from being applied, they never guarantee that it is applied." A schedule does not say this will happen this often, it says this can not happen more than this often. Thus with the default half hour updates the proposed schedule would not have any

Is it possible to trigger a service restart without always forcing that service to be running? We shutdown mysql for about 30min every day to do backups, and I don''t want puppet to start mysql during this window. So I''ve removed ensure => "running" from the mysql service. But now notify => Service[mysql] doesn''t restart mysql. Is it possible to tell

Hi, I''m sorry if that''s a FAQ, I also know exported resources are a still experimental. So my problem might well be a design limitation of how exported resources are working. My issue: I''m trying to export a file resource that is created by an exec block. The file is exported fine and collected fine but it is always empty on the other host. The puppet snippet: class

Hi I''m quite new to the art of writing puppet manifest, but the more I see, the more I like it :-) I''m trying to write a djbdns dnscache module. dnscache configuration is spread in several files, for instance the ip addresses allowed to query the cache each have a file in dnscache/root/ip/ whose filename is the address. I''m trying to automate the creations of those

Hello Wouter, We used tinydns for many years. After migration to nsd3 we miss only one feature present in tinydns only: tinydns may switch addresses by decreasing the ttl for old data and serve new data starting from a fixed timestamp. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html: You may include a timestamp on each line. If ttl is nonzero (or omitted), the timestamp is a starting time for the

Hi, I''m absolutely new to centralized server management, sorry sorry in advance for any stupid remarks. Looking on the puppet documentation, I mainly find a lot of info about how to manage the config files, but nothing about centralized control. So I''m wandering if I''m looking a the right software package for my needs. I want to be able to do the following from a

Thanks for getting back with the "solution". You might want to give that bugzilla entry a jolt, it's been stagnating since last year. :-) Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at

Use BIND. How the times have changed. :-) PS: I'm also curious for a solution.. for when djbnostalgia hits me. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 13 January,

Hi, I''m running multiple vservers and have some aspects managed via puppet. I noticed that puppetd consumes from 20 to 60 mb RAM and the longer the process runs, the more RAM it takes. It looks like 60MB is the top what I measured. Having a couple of vservers (11 in my case) this can already take up to 500MB just for puppet! I''m wondering if there''s any downside in

> Sorry - I once was sold on the idea of djb's tools and Qmail, and I've > regretted installing it ever since. Save yourself some serious agony - run > (don't walk!) away from djb-ANYTHING! I don't know what problems you had with it, but I'm hapilly using it on about 20 servers (both djbdns and qmail) and never had a problem with it. I'll remember your advice

Hi, How do I force my Service declaration (with is defined elsewhere and inherited) is run after an exec has run? The code; class autofs_nis::services inherits services::base { Service[''ypbind''] { ensure => running, enable=> true, } ..... } class autofs_nis::exec inherits services::base { exec { "setdomainname": command

I''m very new at puppet, but I''ve almost managed to get to the point where my puppet server sets up all the basics of a new linux box for me. The last piece of the puzzle is backups. The way I do backups is fairly simplistic. I just use mysqldump and tar to create local backup files and then scp them to a central host once a day. In order to set this up, I have to create a key

Lucian, So far here is the best we could find out: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084747 Testing to see if this is the solution; so far it seems to be. Cheers, Boris. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > Use BIND. How the times have changed. :-) > > PS: I'm also curious for a solution.. for when djbnostalgia hits me. > >

Hello, I am examining whether puppet meets our needs. I can''t find the answer to two questions I am looking to answer, hopefully someone can help. 1. Can puppet be used to manage different classes of the same computers, e.g. do something on the apache test farm, if it works then do it on the apache live farm; and is this done cleanly? 2. How are package updates (e.g. yum update/yum

Hello all, We have put a DNS server online running DJBDNS v1.06 (ndjbdns-1.06-1.el6.x86_64) on a 64-bit CentOS 6.6 server. We have done some limited testing on the machine which it passed - i.e., dnscache was talking to tinydns, the queries went through fine, etc. As soon as we put it online subjecting it to live load the following happened: 1) Within a short time period (about a minute) the

Hi, I am fairly new to using puppet, but have it setup on 25 machines. Just doing some basic configuration management. Recently I decided to try working with updating some services config files and used the ensure => running tags. My question is simple - if the source file does NOT change and I use a subscribe, why does the system keep restarting the daemon every time puppet runs? A simple

Hi, I''m writing puppet modules since a couple of weeks now, so I''m still considering myself as a new comer in this field. It seems that modules I can find on the web or the recipe page on the wiki almost all use a design pattern where the module is shipped in one or several class(es) whose configuration are determined by "global" or nodes variables ala: module: class

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello, at the moment I fight with puppetdoc and end in a ruby confusion. To the problem: > puppetdoc --debug --trace --mode rdoc --all manifests/site.pp info: scanning: ["manifests/site.pp"] /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/util/rdoc.rb:82:in `output_resource_doc'' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/util/rdoc.rb:82:in `sort''

I tried to install the ''mongrel'' gem tonight via puppet in an attempt to migrate from webrick to mongrel as described on the puppet site[1]. I added the following to my manifest: package { "rubygems": ensure => installed; "mongrel": ensure => installed, provider => gem, require => Package["rubygems"]; }

Hi there, I've been a happy djbdns+tinydns user for many, many years. I want to keep using it, so answers of the form "bletch! Use ISC BIND the way BSD intended" will be ignored :-) Having said that, one annoying consequence of my transition some time ago to using ntpd, rather than just setting the clock once-off with ntpdate as I used to, is that the /etc/rc.d mechanism starts