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Hi, We are totally sold on Pupet (what a nice concept) and are trying to setup a proof-of-concept. We are trying to learn a bit from other people''s work by integrating external modules. One of the modules we wanted to start with was the ''ntp'' module from David Schmitt. It clearly uses some functionalities from the ''common'' module, which we also

Hi, I''m new to puppet and trying to get started using it just in local mode. My basic question is: how can i reference a static file within the module (eg in the module''s files/ subdirectory, as described in http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ModuleOrganisation). I suppose i could try using a full.absolute path to the file, but that seems to completely defeat the purpose

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, I''m starting to move over to Modules, which looks pretty clean and solid. Reading http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ModuleOrganisation, one thing that confuses me is how the client resolves the implicit file server resources. I''ve got a few different puppet master servers running on different ports, and my configuration re-defines $puppet_master_host and

Hi, I''ve setup my systems to do reporting as explained in https:// reductivelabs.com/cgi-bin/puppet.cgi/wiki/ReportsAndReporting, with tagmail defined as one of the report types - but I do not recieve any mail at all. I''ve configured a tagmail.conf file like this: all: root@localhost But the documentation mentions three options, namely sendmail, reportfrom,

Ok, I''ve been reading and I have some questions about best practices: I understand that modules are to be self contained blocks that i can just drop in. Using best practices, how does this fit into the naming scheme? Classes are singletons. I think i understand this. I''ve been defining classes in /etc/puppet/classes, but then how does this relate to any modules i might want

Hey folks, I''ve just uploaded an apache2 module[1] to our Google Code repository[2]. It''s based largely on the recipe available on the Puppet trac[3], but with a fair amount of modification and generalization... Basically, it provides abstractions for config file snippets, site definitions, and apxs modules -- and then "basic" and "debian"

Greetings - Maybe I''m a bit slow, but I''ve been trying to understand how to use a module for the better part of a day and I''m not getting it. Here''s what I''ve done: Using puppet 0.23.2 1. Downloaded the shorewall module from David Schmitt''s git repo (Thanks David!!!!) and placed it in the directory /var/lib/puppet/modules (using the rpm

In my puppet client I have puppet.conf defined puppet server as mypuppet server = mypuppet.example.net Not sure why the puppet client puppet-test is still sending these noises to the syslog Jun 10 13:36:23 puppet-test puppetd[10863]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Could not find server : getaddrinfo: node name or service name not known Jun 10 13:36:23 puppet-test puppetd[10863]: [ID 702911

Hi, I''m adapting our modules to version 2.7.3. Currently I ''ve this example in a iptables module class iptables_script { file { $iptables_init: owner => "root", group => "root", mode => "0700", ................................. }

People, I have been thinking at this for long time and I do not know if SQLite is sufficient for my application. I developed an inventory system in Rails -v 2.2.2 and I do not know if SQLite is the best choice or if is neccesary have a bigger database engine than SQLite.. This site will not has thousand and thousand records or visits each day so I think with SQLite could

Hello, I want a simple operation in a puppet node like restarting the ssh service if it was stopped. My site.pp is simple as this: import "services/*" node default { include ssh } The services directory as a ssh.pp : class ssh { service { ssh: ensure => running, subscribe => File["/etc/ssh/sshd_config"] } } I''ve stopped the ssh service in the

Shorewall (IP Tables frontend - www.shorewall.net) has been kind of a headache in trying to move forward with puppet - we just haven''t found a clean way to manage the "rules" file. With that in mind - would it be possible to create a "shorewall_rule" type? The rules file is a simple file with space/tab delimited fields: (I can provide a detailed explanation of each

I updated http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ModuleOrganisation to reflect how I intend to implement modules, and what that will look like from a user''s point of view. Comments/flames etc. welcome. David

This is in reference to David Schmitt''s writeup [1] I like that writeup a lot; I just had a few comments/clarifications: * Namespaces: For now, we just use a flat namespace for modules, i.e. you can''t have modules within modules, and you always know that in a fully qualified name ''foo::bar::baz'' that ''foo'' is the module name and

Hello dear list. First of all thanks to all the developers for the great work on puppet. After using it for a while, there is not better tool to manage a network! I have a problem with the $processor fact, which seems to be either not there or ignored at all. I try to implement package deployment for the Macs (Intel vs. PowerPC) as described here:

Hi all, I''m proud to announce that I seem to have pushed a new release of Puppet out in record time. This is a minor upgrade, mostly bugfixes and small features, but there are lots of each. See the changelog[1] for an idea of what this release provides, but keep in mind that this changelog is my first real attempt at keeping an up-to-date changelog. Enjoy! 1 -

Hi As I''m more familiar with cfengine and it''s way to split updates (in update.conf) from the actual grunt work (in cfagent.conf), I''m wondering how to best manage puppet and my manifests with puppet...? Should I define a puppet class that copy the puppet package (in .tgz format) and all the manifests to the client, and then have all my other classes depend on

Hi Can anyone tell me what''s wrong with this one. Sorry I''m new and I just want to print some message to the the puppet log on the client side. --------------------------------------------------- $testvar = "Hello world!" class mytest { exec { "/bin/echo $testvar" } } I keep getting: err: Could not parse; using old configuration: Syntax error at

Hi, When I try to specify a file I want copied in place, like: configfile { "/etc/init.d/puppet": source => "config/apps/puppet/puppet" } and has a require on that later on: exec { "/usr/sbin/update-rc.d puppet defaults": require => "/etc/init.d/puppet" } puppetd throws an error: err: Could not find type