similar to: property.rb moved between 0.22 and 0.23?

--On Monday, May 14, 2007 9:16 PM -0700 Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> wrote: > ObPuppet: we ramping up our deployment this week to around 200 hosts. So > far everything has been going smoothly. We don''t have nearly as many and yet, we see occasional errors ("End of file reached") which seems to indicate the network cutting out. I can''t imagine what would

This patch updates the files under popt/ to the latest vendor drop. The only change is the inclusion of a FreeBSD-specific patch to popt.c. This is needed in case somebody decides to build rsync on that platform without using the port. I'm not happy about the wording in popt/README.rsync so I may change it. The patch is available at http://www.catnook.com/rsync-popt-1.5.1.patch Comments

Quick and dirty: --- lib/facter.rb (revision 203) +++ lib/facter.rb (working copy) @@ -989,6 +989,18 @@ %x{/usr/sbin/scutil --get LocalHostName} end end + Facter.add(:interfaces) do + confine :kernel => :linux + setcode do + %x{/sbin/ifconfig -a -s}.split($/)[1..-1].collect {|line|

Perhaps now is a good time to commit this patch which updates the included popt to version 1.7. This has been tested on FreeBSD and Solaris. http://www.catnook.com/patches/rsync-popt-1.7.diff Comments? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Sunnyvale, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/

Is there a way to specify on a per-object basis that Puppet should merely report that an object needs to be updated without actually performing the update? This would make it possible to detect changes to critical objects (e.g. config files) that Puppet shouldn''t try to fix automaticaly. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com

This patch against OpenSSH 3.2.3p1 implements an ssh-agent authentication retry mechanism which is useful when starting many ssh clients in a short period of time. The number of retries and the maximum delay between retries is runtime-configurable using AuthMaxRetries <integer> AuthRetryDelay <seconds> The patch is available at:

For anyone that has experienced the odd End of file or Cannot describe errors, we''ve found that switching to Mongrel has fixed this problem for us. We''re currently running 5 instance of puppetmaster under mongrel (with the apache proxy in front) and things are going great. For more information on setting up Mongrel, visit:

http://www.catnook.com/patches/rsync-popt-1.6.4.patch has a patch which upgrades the popt included with rsync to the latest version, 1.6.4. The configure script had to be regenerated (with autoconf 2.53) because popt.c wants HAVE_FLOAT_H. As an aside, I have heard people complain about this version of autoconf generating scripts that break when run under bash (as /bin/sh). Comments? -- Jos

Hi, I was wondering if there is any of getting the gem package provider to run non-interactively? When upgrading mongrel it fails because it gets prompted for which version to install: Attempting remote update of mongrel Select which gem to install for your platform (x86_64-linux) 1. mongrel 1.1.1 (ruby) 2. mongrel 1.1.1 (jruby) 3. mongrel 1.1.1 (mswin32) 4. mongrel 1.1 (mswin32) 5.

[Apologies if this is an off-topic question; please direct me to a more appropriate place if so.] Using Kerberos/GSSAPIAuthentication, is there a way to centrally control/manage (perhaps using LDAP?) which user principals can log into what hosts/accounts? -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com

I''d like to keep the desired and current states of a machine regarding it''s configuration. Sometimes a chain of administrative commands is needed to get a special thing (re)configured on a machine, e.g. reconfig of a suncluster. This cannot be done with puppet in an easy way. In the majority of cases, these commands change appropriate files, which reflect the current

Hi, I have an application which is dying horrible deaths (i.e. segmentation faults) in mid-flight, in production... And of course, I should fix it. But while I find and fix the bugs, I found something I think should be different - I can work on submitting a patch, as it is quite simple, but I might be losing something on my rationale. When Mongrel segfaults, it does not -obviously- get to clean

Just curious as to the functionality of puppet. Does Puppet ensure that a service is up and running as long as puppet is running? Ie, I want to make sure ssh is always running, if for some reason ssh get''s shut down, does puppet start it back up when it does it''s config sync run? Thanks! --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for

I''m sure everyone has read and committed the Puppet Best Practice to memory by now (I joke). One of the things I''ve written in there deals with trailing commas, which I adopted from the way I used to do multiline in Perl, but I''ve noticed that most people don''t tend to do that in Puppet. Should I revise this or should we all start using the trailing commas?

One particular use of Puppet would be to serve as a machine fact/configuration retrieval tool. So in order to produce a list of packages with version-release info installed on each machine something along the lines of the following code could be run: require ''puppet'' Puppet::Type.type(:package).defaultprovider.list.each do |package| puts

Hi all, Not sure if this is a bug in puppet, yum, or just something I''m doing wrong. I''m trying to use puppet to update a package to a particular version and exec a command when that update is applied. The problem is, puppet calls yum which successfully updates the package, but puppet then thinks the update has failed and hence doesn''t trigger the exec. Next

Hi all; I am sure this question has been brought up before, but I could not find any information in the FAQ or docs etc. Quick question; Is there a way of syncing multiple servers simultaneously from 1 source server? Thanks, -- Vaibhav Goel extension 6347

And lsof the agent too - see what files it has open... Nico -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Steves [mailto:kevin at atomicgears.com] > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:48 PM > To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org > Cc: stevesk at pobox.com > Subject: Re: 3.4p1 ssh-agent auth-retry patch available: was: Re: > Updated ssh-agent authentication retry patch available

Hello everybody, I have updated the puppetmaster from 0.22.4 to 0.23.0 (and today to 0.23.2). Although ''dbmigrate=true'' is turned on AND the puppetmaster is saying it migrates the databse at startup, this does not happen. When it should store configs, I get the error: Could not store configs: Mysql::Error: #42S02Table ''database.resource_tags''

Perhaps this is a lame question, but... is there a way to pass an SSH port # to rsync? At least one way I can do it is to use a small shell wrapper around ssh and pass the port # thru the environment. Just wondering if there is an easier way that I magically can't find. The reason for this is primarily because I find myself having to copy files between some local host and some remote host