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Hello all, I have read through the sparse documentation on the Search (intentionally capitalized to differentiate from the verb) function as well as searched the group list (and mail archives) with little success to finding an answer. It is my understanding that I want to use the Search function to achieve my goal. I would like to know: a) is my understanding about the purpose of this function

Hello all, puppet hangs while trying to restart a daemon when the associated config file changes, here the log: Mar 19 11:30:04 ingentTest puppetd[27390]: Starting Puppet client version 0.22.0 puppetd[27390]: Starting configuration run puppetd[27390]: (/ingenttest/qualsevolnode/guaita[guaita]/File[/etc/guaita.conf]/content) synced puppetd[27390]:

hello,all. Is there a have some tools to check the puppet manifests before to use it ? like nagios -v nagios.cfg .the new version puppet client can''t get error syntax message,so ,when have some syntax error I can''t found it. -- Huang Mingyou

Hello, I just attempted to remove both the ypbind and the yp-tools packages using the package parameter with yum. As it turns out, both of these packages depend on each other. Is there a way of forcing package removal and, if there is not, is there a way of making all packages to be removed be collapsed into the same yum command? Either of these solutions would solve the problem with the

hi,all I want set up a puppet HA structure. but if the puppetd can set more than one server address ,the work will be simple :D if one puppetmaster have error, the client can auto try the next. I think I can use the heartbeat or dns to do this same thing,but not so good. so I want know the puppetd can direct set in the configure file ? if not,will be add this option? -- Huang

Hi, I wanted to configure reporting in puppet. I came across the below links which says what needs to be added in config file to enable reports. But I was wondering how I view the visual report/graphs do I need to create my own script. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ReportReference#rrdgraph http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ReportsAndReporting -- Deepak

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/ This looks awesome! Any ETA? Best, Adam

Hi all, As promised, 0.24.1 is out. Here''s the changelog: Updated vim filetype detection. (#900 and #963) Default resources like schedules no longer conflict with managed resources. (#965) Removing the ability to disable http keep-alive, since it didn''t really work anyway and it should no longer be necessary. Refactored http keep-alive so

I was playing around with the generate() function and was wondering if anyone was making us of it. The current way I''m attempting to use it is to determine what the homedir of a given user is. I have: --- $homedir = generate("/bin/sh", "-c", "grep ^${name} /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f6") --- which returns what I expect it to return except that it preserves the

I''m trying to write a wrapper definition for the file type to make it a bit smarter. I have a basic version working fairly well: define xfile($owner = root, $group = root, $mode = 644, $source, $backup = main, $recurse = false, $ensure = file) { file { $name: mode => $mode, owner => $owner, group => $group, backup => $backup, recurse

Hi Does anyone know if the following is supposed to work? ------------------------------------------------------ site.pp case $psi_rank { Devel: { import "Devel/psi_gfa/*" import "Devel/nodes" import "Devel/os/yum_update" } Prod: { import "Prod/psi_gfa/*" import "Prod/nodes" import

Our puppetmaster runs on a host with multiple interfaces connected to various private networks, with different hostnames for each IP. I''m trying to use $servername in modules to copy files over a private network, but this is always set to the public hostname of the server. That route is blocked by a firewall. Is there a way to use the server variable in puppet.conf in manifests?

Hi working with the following puppet-0.24.1-1 puppet-server-0.24.1-1 ruby-1.8.1-7.EL3.8 rhel3 u8 The puppetmaster is running on rhel4 u5 I am working with puppet and rhel3 u8 and I have any an issue anytime I ask puppet to interact with yum for the record - yum from the cli works perfectly I setup a class to manage ntpd and in the class I have the following function # make sure ntpd is

Hi all, I currently use puppet and cacti, and am in need of an alerting system for systems/services that are down. Alerts through cacti are a major pain, so I have begun looking at a small and simple tool called monit. Monit, however, seems to be doing a lot of things that puppet is already doing for me (such as checking if services are running and starting them if they aren''t, etc), so

All I am doing some testing and have a quick question. Do class and node names have to be unique? I define a node: node test { include test } and a class called test. When I run the test node and connect I don''t get an error but no configuration is applied to the node. Is this normal behaviour or a bug? If it''s normal behaviour should Puppet tell you about the

Does anyone know how to install puppet as client on FreeBSD & OpenBSD. -- Deepak _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users

As everyone probably realizes, I''m getting swamped with incoming problems and tickets and I still need help triaging the tickets. James Turnbull has volunteered to help some, but I think we need more than one person. We''ve had a few people step in once or twice, but I''d like to be able to depend on Unreviewed tickets getting handled by someone else, rather

Hello! In my puppet configuration I need to get some data from database. Ie.: I''ve got information about my all hosts in db - thier name, mac addresses, ip addresses, what to backup from this host etc. For now it''s just .xml file, but it could be sql db, or ldap directory. Then, using this small "database", I want to generate configuration using puppet - ie.:

I found that has been fixed in Fedora and RedHat which return the version ( like 5, 7, 8 etc.. ) but in CentOS, it still return the kernel version instead. ================= Barrow Kwan ThoughtWorks, Inc. New from ThoughtWorks: Mingle, an Agile project management application. Mingle. Project Intelligence. Powerfully Simple. More at http://studios.thoughtworks.com

Hi all, Is everyone switched over to the Google lists? I''m basically ready for the switch, I think, and doing so would be one more closed loop for me. I notice we''ve only got a bit over 300 subscribers to the Puppet Users list, while my madstop list has nearly 600. This is a bit depressing, but it probably represents a better idea of who''s actually using the