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I''m having problems with a definition not being found. I get the following error when running puppetd -vt: err: Could not find type "manual_apt_get_update" in file /etc/puppet/manifests/definitions/apt_misc.pp at line 22 The definition is present for sure. Can anyone spot a problem with the code below? define manual_apt_get_update { exec { "/usr/bin/apt-get

Hi, I have run into an issue using puppet in an ldap environment and I am wondering if anyone else has run into the same issue. A number of the puppet clients in my testing environment are failing to apply new configurations because the puppet client is getting an ldap error. Currently, I am attempting to push a new bash_profile to my home directory and then set my username/group to then own the

I know this comes up periodically, and I''ve read through the wiki (including the Best Practices page) & list archives, but still can''t quite get my head around it. I see lots of references to /modules and $MODULE_PATH, but am not sure what these refer to. Here''s a basic setup I have. Let me know if this looks correct: /etc/puppet/ |-- autosign.conf |--

Hi, From looking at the puppetd --help, there is not currently (at 0.22.4) a method of specifying tags in the puppetd.conf. I was hoping to use this for the following reason: Currently, I use ''noop = true'' in my puppetd.conf, and run ''puppetd --no-noop {tags}'' to install the configurations that I am happy with. This is because I''m currently

From looking at the Facter code, it looks like the ''operatingsystemrelease'' fact is currently a mirror of the ''kernelrelease'' fact. I''d like to implement this fact so that it returns the major version of the operating system, eg: Debian Sarge: operatingsystemrelease => 3.1 Debian Etch: operatingsystemrelease => 4.0 RHEL3 update 8:

Greetings. Long story short ... configuration changes were made to my puppet clients while my puppet server was unavailable. I would like to run puppetd in such a way that it will list what files it would replace, but not actually replace them, so that I can synchronize my server with my various clients. rsync has a -n (--dry-run) option that does this. But I can''t find one in

Hi puppetiers, recently I switched to using Mongrel webserver in effort to get rid of those annoying "end of file reached" errors and increase performance. It did the trick beautifully, but now a lot of my reports are plagued by another error message: --- err: Could not call fileserver.describe: #<Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted - connect(2)>

In the documentation, there is an example such as this: case $operatingsystem { sunos: { include solaris } # apply the solaris class redhat: { include redhat } # apply the redhat class default: { include generic } # apply the generic class } I''ve seen the $operatingsystem variable used elsewhere. What actually puts the value into the $operatingsystem variable? Does

As promised, I''m trying to extra more data out of Puppet''s internals, and this is one I''ve been wanting to do ever since I developed the idea of provider suitability. I''ve created new type of ''reference'' (although it''s more of a report than a reference) that can tell you which providers are functional on the current platform,

I have a machine with two swap partitions (sda2 and sda8). Both will have none as mount point. When I try to use puppet (using mount type) for managing fstab I get problems because "name" in both instances (i.e. mount path) will be "none". How should I fix this within puppet? Regards Halvard Moe

It seems like a very common expectation that the following code would work: class boo { $me = "/something" file { $me: ensure => present } } class yay inherits boo { $me = "/something/else" } Yet, as many have found to their chagrin, it does not work. Should it? I believe I know how I could make this work: Create a single variable namespace for class

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:23:19AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> > 3. Disable the user list: > Pretty sure that Alan filed a bug against RH with this, but, as RH seems to > do these days when sysadmins complain about Fedora-isms, it was probably > ignored. > > Merrily

Am I opening myself to some security vulnerability if I unprotect the Controller classes'' redirect methods? I merrily wrote a (specific to my university) authentication filter as a separate class. As part of the authentication process it needs to re-direct the user to a university server to log in. This all works fine except that the redirect_to methods of a controller are all

Problem: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u Software/system: Dovecot 1.2.8 running under Fedora 12 with 1.9 gig RAM + AMD Athlon LE-1640 CPU on a ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard (uname -a = Linux 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:06:26 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) Dovecot has been installed from the Fedora

I'm trying to build the current development version of R on an SGI running IRIX6.5. Everything proceeds merrily until I reach the eda package. This is the error message I get if I cd to the appropriate directory and type 'make' or 'make all.' Does this make sense to anyone? -- Thanks, Debby gmake[3]: Entering directory `/l/fsc/dfs/src/R/src/library/eda' building

Hi. Lighttpd''s merrily serving Rails on OS X for me, but I can''t for the life of me get script/console to run. I get, always: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'': No such file to load -- readline (MissingSourceFile) (And then a chain of errors leading from that point...) I followed Jason''s manuals.textdrive

I had a recent disaster scenario with rsync. I was wondering if there were any suggestions to guard against in the future: I used to maintain "mirror" backups of the /home dir on our production_server using rsync to a backup_server. The primary server had a rsyncd daemon running and the backup_server had this line in the crontab: 10 01 * * * rsync -av --delete root at

I''ve been pondering how to handle our file distribution issues - we''re starting to roll puppet out, and I''d like to get it somewhat right from the start. I''ve been watching the list for a while, and observed ''complaints'' about the speed of the fileserver method when dealing with recursive directories. If I can avoid this, I''d

This patch allows PrinterDC to go merrily by on Linux. I''m not sure it''s the best solution to the problem so I submit it for your approval. Roy -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: PrinterDC.i.patch Url: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-development/attachments/20061024/585c15f2/attachment.pl

Hello, Suppose that every day cron runs this: rsync -a --times --delete $HOME /my/backups/dir/latest In general, rsync will only update a file if it has been modified. Now, imagine that one of the files becomes corrupted in the backup directory, but the timestamp hasn't changed. Will rsync detect this? I am using rsync in a backup solution which could be summarized to: cd