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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

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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Russ, Digant, *! Several times on the IRC channel I noticed people having problems getting to grips with the interaction of scopes when using template nodes[1]. Typically this looks thus: | node genericwebserver { stuff } | | node ''web01.example.com'' inherits genericwebserver { | $influence_genericwebserver =

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 am trying to set up an automatic connection between CentOS 4 system (server) and a CentOS 5 DomU VM (client) via ssh to enable my to back up development files on the server to the client with a cron process. I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy the public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as authorized_keys2. When I try to ssh to

Hi, We are managing user access to servers via puppet based on the groups from LDAP. What we would further like is if any users which are created apart from puppet ie if puppet adds user1 & someone who has created a xyz user on the server. We need to remove that user from that server bcos puppet never pushed it its created by someone apart from puppet. And we can maintain

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

Hello everyone, I''ve been working on an internal best practices document that also tackled giving proper terms to things that were at the time uncoined. But looks like we have a bit of a merge problem as other terms have been floating around that seem to conflict with some terms we''ve been using internally at my organization. I''m hoping we can discuss and

Hello, May be I am wrong, but why rsync tells me that it's nothing to do? I just want to synchronize the directory's attributes (with no recursion) such as: permissions, owner, group and time. Example: ======= host1# pwd /var/rsync/host2 ! ! At first, I copy only subdirecory /usr/local/samba/lib ! host1# mkdir -p usr/local/samba host1# rsync -a --delete -e ssh

I am having a problem letting users mount there samba shares. The root user has no problem mounting . But regular users get the error "mount: only root can do that " when trying to execute the following. mount -rw -t smbfs //jelly-bean-iii/E /home/ca43887/E Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Charles

Hi everyone ! So here's my question of the day ! I need to make a decision on whether or not to go to a voip solution or configure an existing pbx (norstar) that my company has available. We are a small startup. I'm wanting a solution that will support up to about 200 people, with direct dial-in capability, up to about 30 concurrent phone calls and good voice quality. Right now I have

Hey, has anyone on the list experienced the following behavior ? When \\server\userhome <\\server\userhome> is specified as the "home folder" in the AD user profile, XP takes a long time to open up "my computer" But when \\server\userhome <\\server\userhome> is mapped via a netlogon script, XP opens "my computer" quickly I've searched ms technet

Sorry for all the newbie questions. I really appreciate everyone's help today. Okay I've got outgoing and incoming calls working with no echo. yay! Now I'm having an issue with SIP extension to extension calling. Any time I dial another extension it goes right into voice mail. My extensions.conf is pretty small and rough but, here's what I have right now. Most of it was taken

Hi there - I'm having some echo problems on my snom 320 phones. Anybody experience this before ? I don't have any issues with the sipura 841s I have though. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks ! Nora Lavelle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Christoph Scheeder asked > > Hi, > 1.) is this a new installation No, it was Mandrake 8.2 box, but was recently upgraded to Mandrake 10. > 2.) if not what was changed when the failure first occured? Thing were running fine, at least that's what it appeared like. Then sporadically people started getting authentication error when logging into their IMAP mailboxes. Next the

Hai, ? Im trying to change the userhome folder, but im still not getting the path i want. ? getent passwd Administrator:x:0:100::/home/MATWS/Administrator:/bin/bash and i want Administrator:x:0:100::/home/users/Administrator:/bin/bash ? I did change the following. logon path = /home/samba/profiles logon home = /home/users My server is samba 4.0.10 DC as member of Win2008R2 domain. and i did

Hi all. I'm sorry if this is a simple, obvious question, but I've looked around, and can not find an answer to this. What exactly are the false_alarms in the rsync summary? I am getting a number of false alarms in several of my rsync processes. Here's my output from one of my logfiles: total: matches=9724 tag_hits=741242 false_alarms=36 data=20850152 wrote 11731892 bytes read

Hi, I've some problems with this network : [ host1 eth0: 10.22.2.4/8 ] [ host2 eth0:10.22.2.5/8 default route host3] \ / SWITCH internet | | |

Hi all I have a problem when im trying to configure a hunt group on zap channel. here is the part of my extension.conf that not working. exten => s,1,Answer exten => s,2,Dial(SIP/01278******@xifos,10,Tt) exten => s,3,GotoIf($[$[${DIALSTATUS} = "CHANUNAVAIL"] | $[${DIALSTATUS} = "CONGESTION"] ]?4) exten => s,4,Dial(Zap/4/901278******|10) exten =>

Hi, I've a samba server set up with a ldap backend an I'v configured it to use roaming profiles (ie: logon path = \\%L\%U\profile), the users homes are exported by nfs to the server. My problem is that the profile of the user always end up in C:/Documents and Settings/$user . I've already erased the local profile and the profile directory in the users home dir, but every time that