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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

One one of my new vmware guests... puppetd -v spits out a bunch of err & warnings about "State group failed"... what does this mean? <snip> info: Caching configuration at /var/lib/puppet/localconfig.yaml err: Could not create root: Could not find a default provider for group warning: file=/etc/yum.repos.d/: State group failed: Could not find a default provider for group

I know people must be doing something to manage iptables, but I haven''t been able to find anything yet. ( My google-fu must be weak today. ) What are you using to manage your iptables? -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--

Is there a way to tell the puppetmaster that I want to import all modules rather than listing each one individually?

file { "/var/log/syslog": target => "/var/log/messages" } generates the following error: err: //henson/stanford/syslog/file=/var/log/syslog: Failed to retrieve current state: undefined method `should'' for false:FalseClass

Anyone using the rrdgraph report on the puppetmaster on Debian stable? I''m trying to get this working and not getting far. I even took rrdtool and librrd0-dev from backports and I still get the same problem. It seems that the rrdfiles are being somewhat created, but nevertheless, the puppetmaster isn''t happy and keeps spewing: err: Report rrdgraph failed: Could not create

Anyone ever migrated the puppetca to a different host? What are the steps that are involved?

Hello community, We are running puppetmaster 0.22.3 with 45 servers attached and we are seeing a lot of messages that say: (err): Could not describe /ssh/sshd_config.RedHat: End of file reached: We were seeing a lot of this with 0.22.1 as well. Interestingly, during the stretch where we were running 0.22.2 (most of April until 2 days ago) we didn''t see this error at all or very

Hello, I am currently experiencing a bit of a quandry with how to specify default configuration applications to generic nodes. Here is an example setup: Classes: Class A Class B inherits Class A Class C inherits Class B Problem: I have unique hosts (nodes) X and Y and a bunch of other standard hosts. I would like X and Y to be able to override attributes in Class C (thus inherit class C) but

I turned on reporting the other day and I''m seeing alot of these when puppet runs. Especially during times when nothing is going on (middle of the night etc) Tue Dec 11 12:34:48 -0500 2007 //base/puppet/puppet::client/Service[puppet]/ensure (notice): ensure changed ''stopped'' to ''running'' It''s also quite odd that puppet when it runs it thinks

i got a little idea there, should not puppet use environement LANG=C when managing facts or packages etc... ? i have LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 and puppet choke on quite a few facts (erors messages with uname for exemple: Pour en savoir davantage, faites: « uname --help ». ) and also with packages updates : /usr/bin/apt-cache policy mysql-client-4.1 => err:

Besides using an exec line with a case statement(to determine the specific os''s disable command), does puppet come with a buit in method to disable a user account? Thanks!. --------------------------------- Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you''re surfing. _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list

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

Hi, What is the best way for you to simulate a provider behavior in modules ? For exemple if you have an webserver module and want to have a apache2, lighthttpd prividers. How would you do so the call to the modules functions stay like: webserver::addvhost { ... } and not webserver::apache2::addvhost Any best practices you can share ? I know that conditional include would not work

it seems that puppet refuse to run in the new version. It fails on the line: err: Could not apply complete configuration: Unknown configuration parameter :lockdir the client is .22.1 and server still .22.0 -- Cordialement, Ghislain _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users

what can i do to find the bug when puppet print this: err: Found a bug: Field dump is required -- Cordialement, Ghislain _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users

Hello, As i still have issue i wonder if anyone using this version of openssl ? OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 I still cannot make puppet accept Certificate on freeBSD6 with this openssl version. I got the famous error 7 at 1 depth lookup:certificate signature failure and i havent find a way to get around that :( -- Cordialement, Ghislain _______________________________________________

In the normal override method, you can change the value of a parameter, but can you unset a parameter? file { "/etc/somefile": mode => 644, owner => "dude" } File ["/etc/somefile"] { mode => unset } ??

I might have the terminology wrong, but how to a give new puppet providers to the puppet clients? I''m thinking a provider is the thing the puppet client uses to implement a task that the master has given it. Am I way off here? Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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",